INTRO: You said you'd go just for a year and I watched the taillights disappear Your words like old footprints upon my mind Yeah your family all was gone, but you couldn't imagine leavin' long I said you only get your life for this one time But what do I recall when the world is all but changin' In the mirror while I'm standin' like an old stop sign Have courage, said the man, when you see your whole life turnin' out Nothin' like you'd ever seen or planned He said there's always another day, and anyhow that's the only way It's better just to learn that while you can Well would she stay or would she go, with a girl like that you never know What's goin' on in her heart is hard to define Chorus: But I'm inclined to say Virginia guess you made up your mind INTRO Well you taught me how to dance and what it is to take a chance There's learnin' and there's doin', it's not the same Yeah I held you when you cried on the mornin' that your daddy died If you're livin', you hurt, there's no one to blame Yeah and hell I do alright, but there's times that I can't sleep at night And I think about things I didn't know would stay with me all this time Chorus SOLO: Yeah years go by and you don't come home at all Or write or call or tell me what you did or didn't find Yeah the young girl that I married and the babies that she carred Are the stars that my whole world turns around And I guess she's just like me, and she didn't care too much to see What life was like outside our little town Yeah mornin's, there are some, where I wonder if I've chosen Anything that I've ever done before in my whole life Chorus: But that's all behind me now Virginia guess you made up I'm inclined to say Virginia guess you made up I don't mind to see Virginia guess you made up your mind INTRO out