Dancing Virginia

Jump Little Children — Licorice Tea Demos (1995)
DANCING VIRGINIA
tabbed by Douglas Thompson (bananaco9@gmail.com)

  Chords Used:
E|--0--|--0--|--0---|--2--|--2--|--2--|
B|--0--|--2--|--2---|--4--|--2--|--2--|
G|--1--|--2--|--2---|--4--|--2--|--3--|
D|--2--|--2--|--2---|--4--|--4--|--4--|
A|--2--|--0--|--4---|--2--|--4--|--4--|
E|--0--|-----|------|-----|--2--|--2--|
 |  E  |  A  | A/C# |  B  | F#m | F#  |


E  A  A/C#  B  [x2]

A             D
Your moon has come out tonight
A         D
Round as a crying eye 
A          D
Round as a ringlet of smoke
F#m        E          
from your smoke signal sky

A        D
I am the oak and the maple
A       D
I have covered my roots
A           D
You are the dancing virginia
F#m      E
In black leather boots

A           D
Come as the silver morning
A           D
Come as the dragonfly
A           D
Come as my sleeping sister
F#m         E
Through the midnight sky

B                  E      F#
Cover me with your fire's ashes
B                  E        F#
Cover me with your midnight veil
B                  E      F#
Cover me with your smokey river
B         E          F#
Cover me, dancing virginia


A D [x3]
F#m E

A              D
There's a pain in my side
A          D
And it's killing me
A               D
There's a field of crows
F#m   E
Now a black sea

A          D 
And I have called upon the hills
A          D
And I have called upon the soil
A             D
And they have screamed in my ear
F#m           E
"Where's your heart boy?"


B                  E      F#
Cover me with your fire's ashes
B                  E        F#
Cover me with your midnight veil
B                  E      F#
Cover me with your smokey river
B         E          F#
Cover me, dancing virginia


E  A  A/C#  B  [x3]

A             D
Your moon has come out tonight
A          D
Round as a crying eye 
A          D
Round as a ringlet of smoke
F#m       E
From your smoke signal sky

A           D
Come as the silver morning
A           D
Come as the dragonfly
A          D
Come as my sleeping sister
F#m         E
Through the midnight sky

B                  E      F#
Cover me with your fire's ashes
B                  E        F#
Cover me with your midnight veil
B                  E      F#
Cover me with your smokey river
B         E          F#
Cover me, dancing virginia
B                  E   F# 
Cover me with your revelation
B                  E       F#
Cover me with your sorrow's tale
B                  E    F#
Cover me with your holy water
B         E          F#
Cover me, dancing virginia

    E             A
The gray elephant folds of adventure
    E             A
The blue oasis of meditation
    E                    A
The feathered touch of a sleepy afternoon
  E                   A
Beneath the tent of a palmetto heaven
        E              A
And I'm rising upwards from my feet
   E                    A                  B
As children run side by side with their elation


E  A  A/C#  B  [x5]
End on E