Chords for East Virginia Blues - The Whitetop Mountaineers

_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ I was at home in East Virginia,
_ looking [F] like [C] a honeybee,
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ and [G] her legs, I did [C] not _ own her. _
Stark and furly, and [F] her cheeks,
her [C] eyes on [F] her breast,
she wore [C] white lint,
_ but I [G] don't own her,
she laid [C] by the gate.
I don't own her,
she's a green man's dog,
_ _ _ [F] _ _
she wants [C] to train me.
All [F] I _ want is to [C] be her dog,
_ [G] she'll stay,
she'll stay [C] with me. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ The ocean breeze,
and I can't wait,
_ and [F] I'm handed _ _
_ [C] _ _ a [F] new pair, _
_ [C] _ _ although [B] we all [G] want to be [C] others.
_ _ I'm a green man's dog,
I [F] don't want to be her [C] dog to train me.
_ [F] All I want is [C] to be her dog,
_ she'll [G] stay,
she'll stay [C] with me. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm going back to East Virginia, _
North [F] Carolina, _ you know.
[C] _ _
I'm going [F] back [C] to East Virginia, _
leaving [G] North Carolina.
[C] _ _
I don't _ own her,
she's a green man's dog, _
I don't [F] _ want to be her dog to train me.
All [F] I want _ is to [C] be her dog, _ _
[G] she'll stay with me.
[C] _ _ _
[G] She'll stay with me.
[C] _ _ _