The Red Rose and the Briar chords by John Wesley Harding
Verse 1
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Midweek
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and we reached scarlet town
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I was almost dying of thirst
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We parked the car in some old schoolyard
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The windscreen caked in dirt
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There was no water in the en gine left
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No tread upon the tyres
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The electrics were broke
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'cause you went mad
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You ripped out all the wires
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Across the road, a small cafe
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In this state of disrepair
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You went for papers and a shave
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So I saved you a chair
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I knew it wasn't the jour
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ney's end
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And that your dream was incomplete
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But I just could not stand anymore
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I was dead upon my feet
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I was dead upon my feet
Verse 2
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There's nothing there in the mar
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But the ghost of the scarlet town crier
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I was dead upon my feet
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I sing the red rose and the briar
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I sing the red rose and the briar
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Interlude 1
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The waitress told me her
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life story
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She'd always meant to up and go
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She wiped a cup on her red pinafore
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As we waited for you to show
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And I told her just a little of you
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But left the picture incomplete
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You still weren't there
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to paint it in per son
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So I skipped out on the street
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I skipped out on the street
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The newsagent grinned, he
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said yes you'd been in
You bought a local paper
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and some shades
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The washroom attendant said that
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you'd freshened up
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That you'd left but you hadn't paid
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And I couldn't figure out where you were
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So I went back just to look near the car
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There was nothing there where
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it should have been
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Just oil on dirt and tar
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Just oil on dirt an d tar
Verse 4
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There's nothing there in the mar
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ket square
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But the ghost of the scarlet town crier
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And there was nothing there
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where it should have been
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I sing the red rose and the briar
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I sing the red rose and the briar
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Verse 5
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I saw it parked way down the street
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In a garage off on the right
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And a man said 'get your
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hands off son'
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I just traded that wreck for
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a motorbike
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There was nothing left of mine inside
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Not even the broken radio
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And I couldn't figure
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out where that left me
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So I went back to look for rose
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The cafe rouge was a lunchtime rush
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Of regulars yelling for food
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The service in there left
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a lot to be desired
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And all the regulars were getting rude
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I saw an apron thrown over a chair
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A note said 'hey john we're gone,
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we're gone'
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And I just smiled 'cause I
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loved you both
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So I put the ap ron on
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I put the ap ron on
Verse 6
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There's nothing there in the mar
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But the ghost of the scarlet town crier
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And I just put the ap ron on
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I sing the red rose and the briar
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I sing the red rose and the briar
Outro 1
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The Red Rose and the Briar
John Wesley Harding
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