Rose Ellen chords by Nat Stuckey

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Verse 1
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She tied a
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ribbon around her long hair
Plucks out some grey ones
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that were reput there
With her fingertip she traces
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the lines on her face
Wishes like hell,
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she was some other place
Rose Ellen, you've sure made
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a mess of your life
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Always a lover, but never a wife
Now you're a -pushin' thirty,
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burnin' out fast
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Not much of the future,
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just one hell of a past
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Way down in Holbury, back to the Wall
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Playboys to cowboys,
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what a long way to fall
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From champagne and crystal
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and living for kicks
To a back street in Waco,
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ten bucks a trip
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Rosella, Rosella,
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you'll pay for your sins
When you waltz with the devil,
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the dance never
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And you can't do over what's
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already done
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You're too proud to stay here,
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too tired to run
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She stares at the bottle filled by her bed
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And slowly the answer comes into her head
So she gives up her lease
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on life's merry -go -round
Takes up her option on
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six -feet ground
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Now she's deep down and speedin'
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if you can do it all
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The service was simple,
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attendance was small
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Just one blue -eyed cowboy,
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Rosellin had met
You see, owed her ten dollars,
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and I  was paying my debt.
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you