My Virginia Rose is blooming    (video)

 

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1. My Virginia rose is blooming, she's waiting now for me,

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    in the hills of old Virginia, that’s where I long to be.

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    She wears a winning smile, and her loving eyes are blue,

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    she's won my heart forever, for she's a girl that's true.

 

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2. Beneath the scarlet maple, by the twinkling little spring,

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    that’s where I did a promise, and gave to her the ring.

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    Springtime is approaching, the birds and doves are here,

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    they are singing so sweetly, but none can sing like her.

 

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3. It's love that calls me to you, my rose that never fades,

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    or loses its crimson leaves of love, love that's perfect made.

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    I long to see my darling, there in the midst of dew,

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    with the diamond dewdrops all around her,

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    she'll be a queen in the view.

 

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4. She's a wild rose in the forest, a fairy in a dream,

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    my darling's in Virginia, her age is just 16.

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    A long, long ways from my darling, just a little too far to be,

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    my Virginia rose is blooming, she's waiting there for me.

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (The Carter Family)