Key: G major
Verse 1
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Em
D
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A quiet South Carolina town,
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19 and 22
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The March sky dims to dark from bright
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To grim gray from blue
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Children, let's leave, this we must do
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So little Virginia
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As the wind drew close
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They all ran for the door through the house
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Before one of them got out
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And she'd stay eight years old forever
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That day the storm came through
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C
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Dan claimed the life of a little Virginia Mitchum,
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a cyclone of twenty -two
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They pulled her broken little body
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from the ruins of their home
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And buried her up on the hill in Graniteville
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On their family plot, all alone
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But now her father and mother
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Have all since reached the gate
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Where little Virginia did await
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With a smile, their little child
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And now they're a family
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Back home as though there
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had never been
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The Cyclone of 22
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ChordsG Em D C
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