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Roses
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
Capo 2
| Chord Guide | |||
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32 1 C: x32010 |
134211
F: 133211 |
3 4
G: 3x0003 |
2 1
Am7: x02010 |
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1 4 G/B: x2x003 |
231
Am: x02210 |
231
Dm: xx0231 |
12
Em: 022000 |
C (3) F
On the streets of New York City, where the asphalt greets the sun,
F (3) C (2)
Morning slips in sideways like a cheetah on the run
C (3) F
She’s out there on the sidewalk, kneeling at her toil
G (2) F (2) C (2)
Pulling weeds for Jesus, with her knuckles in the soil
C (3) F
She is no St. Theresa. She is no paragon.
F (3) C (2)
Fingernails are dirty. Her old blue jeans are worn.
C (3) F
She doesn’t talk to strangers, she hardly knows you’re there.
G (4)
She doesn’t want your money, she doesn’t want your prayers, because
Chorus:
Am7 (½) G/B (½) C Am7 (½) G/B (½) C
This is God's dominion, this is peace on earth
Am7 (½) G/B (½) C F G
This is what she's put here for, this is what she's worth
F (½) G (½) C F (½) G (½) Am
All the other things that matter have slowly slipped away
F C F C
Now she grows her roses, she grows her roses,
Dm (½) Em (½) F (2) C (2)
and she grows her roses all day.
/ C - - - / - - - - /
C (3) F
She remembers a young woman with hair as fine as gold
F (3) C (2)
She remembers all her lovers, and she remembers growing old
C (3) F
She remembers meeting Jesus, she can’t recall the day,
G (4)
She gave him all her seeds of darkness, he buried them away, because
Instrumental Verse
/ Am7 - G/B - /
C (3) F
Now she coaxes hope from concrete, and she coaxes right from wrong,
F (3) C (2)
She makes the Spanish ladies break into their Spanish song
C (3) F (2)
Well, at night they smell her roses in the streetlamp’s yellow sun
G (4)
and they dream of summer dresses in the streets of old San Juan, because
Chorus
F C F C
Yeah, she grows her roses, she grows her roses,
Dm (½) Em (½) F (4) C (3)
and she grows her roses every day.
End on C
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
