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Roses

Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem

 

Capo 2

 

Chord Guide
32 1 C:    x32010	134211 F:    133211	3    4 G:    3x0003	2 1 Am7:  x02010
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

 

 

/ 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.