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Virginia

This version of Virginia was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1975.

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I met Virginia two summers ago
Up in them mountains teaching school
All alone in a one room shack

Teaching the children all she knew
We spent a lot of hours together
And one day she said she’d love me for all time
And I’m in love with my Virginia
And I hope she don’t change her mind
We took a trip to Montana
Guess we were looking for gold
Never saw a trace of it
But it was everywhere we were told
Worked in a mine for thirteen hours every day
I took one look at my Virginia
And knew she wasn’t meant to live that way

The going was rough
But she treated me so kind
I’m in love with Miss Virginia
And I hope she don’t change her mind

Now we’re back in Carolina
Up in them Smokies where we belong
Never knew why we went away
Can’t understand why we were gone
Been with her twenty years
And all those years she made me feel so fine
And she still tells me that she loves me
And I hope she don’t change her mind
And I hope she don’t change her mind

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Virginia, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by The Marshall Tucker Band. Some of the lyrics to Virginia have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Marshall Tucker Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Virginia if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Virginia" means the words set to the music of Virginia, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Marshall Tucker Band. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Virginia and the lyrics to Virginia are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Marshall Tucker Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Virginia, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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