{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2292833,"song":"The Virgin","artist":"Gene Clark","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11480375-the-virgin-chords-by-gene-clark/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2292833?type=chord","rating":4.67702,"votes":5,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                   [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nShe went off to the city[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]\r\nTo find what she was looking for[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]               [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nTo identify, to really try[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]B[/ch]\r\nTo  find herself  some hope[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                       [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWith the summer sun for laughing[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd the winter rain did pour[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nShe was lovelier from learning[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd from living, loving more[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                         [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nFrom her dancing love and young soul[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd the gypsies in her dream[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]                    [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nTo the pulse of stark acceptance[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWhen the winds began to freeze[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWith no curfews left to hold her[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C#m[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd no walls to shield her pain[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]B[/ch]                   [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nFinding out that facts were older[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd that life forms are insane.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]               [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThe presence of protection seemed[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]B[/ch]\r\nTo fade, as did her doubt[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThat she now was no exception[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]B[/ch]\r\nNor was the love who pushed her out[/tab]\r\n\r\nThough the streets cried out,\r\n[tab]       [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nGo, homesick[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C#m[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nVirtues strength of mind would ring[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]B[/ch]           [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nIn the maladies of meaning[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThe sad song she learned to sing.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                     [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nNow, her teachers and philosophers[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd the poet's silver throat[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]C#m[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAre the vessels which on wisdom's karmic  ocean she will float.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWas this her revolution,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nJust a child in love's crusade,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]B[/ch]                     [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWith the question in her innocence[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThrough the lies her eyes betrayed?[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThough the streets cried out,","chords":["B","C#m","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}