Leave Virginia Alone Lyrics

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Cover art for Leave Virginia Alone lyrics by Tom Petty

Pleasant as the odorous month of May As glorious as light of day

Whom I admired as soon I saw And now her memory I pursue With such a superstitious lust That I could fumble with her dust

Pretty she was and ageless and wise And in her calling—so precise Thumper went and made their dove The sucking school mistress of Love

And Life ambitious to become Her pupil—left his ghastly home And seeing how we used her here The raw-boned rascal ravished her

Chuck Cotton (paraphrased)