Where The Wild Roses Grow Uke tab by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (Baritone Chords)

5 Chords used in the song: Gm, Cm, Bb, D, F

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Year:  1996
Difficulty: 
3.9
(Intermediate)
Key: GmChords
Gm Gm               Cm Cm Gm Gm 
They call me The Wild Rose
Bb Bb D D
But my name was Elisa Day
Gm Gm Cm Cm Gm Gm
Why they call me it I do not know
F F Gm Gm
For my name was Elisa Day

Gm Gm Bb Bb
From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
Cm Cm D D
She stared in my eyes and smiled
Gm Gm Bb Bb
For her lips were the color of the roses
Cm Cm D D
That grew down the river, all bloody and wild

Gm Gm Bb Bb
When he knocked on my door and entered the room
Cm Cm D D
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
Gm Gm Bb Bb
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
Cm Cm D D
He wiped the tears that ran down my face

# Chorus, then second verse; same as the first

On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?"

On the second day he came with a single rose
Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?"
I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed
He said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?"

# Chorus, then final verse
On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
As I kissed her goodbye, I said, "All beauty must die"
And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth


# Last chorus
Gm Gm Cm Cm Gm Gm
They call me The Wild Rose
Bb Bb D D
But my name was Elisa Day
Gm Gm Cm Cm Gm Gm
Why they call me it I do not know
F F Gm Gm
For my name was Elisa Day
F F Gm Gm
For my name was Elisa Day
F F Gm Gm
For my name was Elisa Day

Uke tab by , 18 Mar 2012

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