Well I chased her down the alley
And over the hill to steal her will
She was as hot as Georgia asphalt
When the A crowd came to adore her brain

So leave Virginia alone
Leave Virginia alone
She's not like you and me
She's not like you and me

You should've seen her back in the city
Poetry and jewels, broke all the rules
She was as high as a Georgia pine tree
Makeup and pills, overdue bills

So leave Virginia alone
Leave Virginia alone
She's not like you and me
She's not like you and me

Some sunny day when the hands of time
Have had their way
You'll understand why it was so hard to run away

She's a loser she's a forgiver
But she still finds good where no one could
You ought to want her more than money
Cadillacs and rust diamonds and dust
So leave Virginia alone

Leave Virginia alone
She's not like you and me
She's not like you and me
So leave Virginia alone

Leave Virginia alone
She's not like you and me
She's not like you and me


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    Hearing from you is more fun that going to San Sebastian, LA, New York, Biarritz, Bayonne, Paris—or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Garcia in Barcelona Partly because of your silly innocence, you look like a crazier, happier St. Therese. Partly because of my love for you Partly because of your love for cookies Partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary

    In the warm New York four o’clock light We are drifting back and forth I look at you and I would rather look at you than at other portraits in the world Except possible for the Polish Rider, occasionally And anyway, it’s in the Frick Which thank heavens, you haven’t gone to yet So we can go together the first time And the fact that you move so beautifully More or less takes care of futurism

    It seems so many were cheated of some marvelous experience Which is not going to go wasted on me

    Frank O’Hara [paraphrased]

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