Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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it floated on the English river
Ah the Rose of High Ro
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mance it opened wide
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A sun tanned woman yearned me
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through the summer
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Verse 2
Preserve my room but
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do not shed a tear
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Should rumour of a shabby
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ending reach you
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Verse 3
But the Rose I sickened
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with a scarlet fever
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She said at last I was her finest lover
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And if she withered I would be to blame
Verse 4
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The judges said you missed
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Ah the dreamers ride again
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st the men of action
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Oh see the men of action falling back
Verse 5
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But I lingered on her thighs
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I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
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My falsity had stung me like a hornet
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The poison sank and it paralyzed my will
Verse 6
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I could not move to warn all the
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That they had been deserted from above
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So on battlefields from here
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to Barcelona
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I'm listed with the enemies of love
Verse 7
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And long ago she said "I must be leaving,
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Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
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You can move it up and down
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and when I'm sleeping
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Verse 8
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So daily I renew my idle duty
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I kiss her open mouth and I
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praise her beauty
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And people call me traitor to my face
Outro 1
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