Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: Where the Wild Roses Grow
Album: Murder Ballads
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CHORUS:
Gm                    Cm  Gm
They call me The Wild Rose
       Bb             D
But my name was Elisa Day
Gm                          Cm    Gm
Why they call me it I do not know
Gm              F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day

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

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

CHORUS

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 layed on the bed
He said, 'If I show you the roses will you follow?'

CHORUS

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 lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

CHORUS 

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transcribed by Benjamin Denes
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