East Virginia Blues chords by Nicholas Edward Williams

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I was born in East Virginia,
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North Carolina
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I did go
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There a spider fell young lady
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In a new hair I did not know
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And her hair was dark and curly
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And her cheeks rosy red
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Upon her breast she wore white lilies
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Where I longed to lay my
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head
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My dear dear, go ask your mother
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If you and my bride might ever meet
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If she says no,
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then come back and tell me
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And I'll run away with you
No, I'm not, go ask my mother
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Girl, she lies on a bed of ribs
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In her head, she holds  that dagger
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She'll kill a man that I
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love best
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I don't want your green back, darlin'
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I  don't want your watchin' chain
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All I want is you, darling
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Just say you'll take me back again
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I'd rather be some dark color
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Where the sun refused to shine
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Than for you to be another man's darling
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An d to know you'll
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never be mine
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