The Carter Family – My Virginia Rose Is Blooming (Guitar)

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[Intro] G [Verse 1]
G
My Virginia rose is blooming

      C                 G
She’s waiting there for me

       C               G
In the hills of old Virginia

       D
That’s where I long to be
[Verse 2]
    G
She wears a winning’ smile

        C               G
And her loving eyes are blue

      C               G
She’s won my heart forever

    D                     G
For she’s the girl that’s true
[Instrumental] C D G [Verse 3]
G
Beneath the scarlet maple

       C                G
By the twinkling little spring

       C               G
That’s where I bid her promise

    D
And gave to her the ring
[Verse 4]
G
Springtime is approaching’

    C                   G
The birds and doves are here

C                   G
They are singing so sweetly

    D                  G
But none can sing like her
[Instrumental] C D G [Verse 5]
G
It’s love that calls me to you

   C               G
My rose that never fades

   C                 G
Or loses its crimson leaves of love

D
Love that’s perfect made
[Verse 6]
  G
I long to see my darlin’

      C              G
There in the mist of dew

         C                     G
With the diamond dewdrops all ‘round her

       D                 G
She’ll be a queen in the view
[Instrumental] C D G [Verse 7]
G
She’s a wild rose in the forest

  C          G
A fairy in a dream

   C               G
My darling's in Virginia

    D
Her age is just sixteen
[Outro]
      G
I’m a long, long ways from my darlin’

       C                 G
Just a little too far to be

      C             G
My Virginia rose is blooming

      D                 G
She’s waiting there for me