Rose Ellen chords by Frankie Laine

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Verse 1
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She ties a
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ribbon round her long hair
Plucks out some grey ones,
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worry put there
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With her fingertips,
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she traces the lines on her face
Wishes like hell,
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she was some other place
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Rose -Ellen,
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you sure made a mess of your life
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Always a lover, never a wife
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You're pushin' thirty,
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burnin' out fast
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Not much of a future,
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but one hell of a past
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Deep down and hungry,
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back to the wall
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From playboys to cowboys,
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what a long way to fall
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From champagne and
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crystal and livin' for kicks
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To  a backstreet and waitin' for ten
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bucks a treat
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Rose -Ellen, Rose -Ellen,
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we pay for our sins
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When you waltz with the devil,
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the dance never
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And  we can't do all
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of what's already done
You're too proud to stay, yeah,
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and too tired to run
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She stares at the
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bottle filled by her head
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Slowly the answer comes into her head
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So she gives up her lease
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on last May to go around
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Takes up her origin on six feet of ground
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Now she's deep down and sleeping,
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if you knew it all
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The service was simple,
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at tendance was small
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Just one blue -eyed cowboy
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Rose -Ellen had met
You see, I owed her ten dollars
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It was just me and my dad
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Do do do do do do ...