Where The Wild Roses Grow chords by Budapest Bár

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Intro 1

Verse 1

They call me the wild rose

But my name was Elisa Day

Why they call me it, I do not know

For my name was Elisa Day

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Verse 2

From the first day I saw her,

I knew she was the one

She stared in my eyes

and smiled

For her lips were the color

of the roses

They grew down the river,

all bloody and wild

Verse 3
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When he knocked on my door
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and entered the room
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My trembling subsided in
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his sure embrace
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He would be  my first man,
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and with a careful hand
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He wiped at the tears that ran
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down my       face

Verse 4
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They call me the wild rose
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But my name was Elisa Day
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Why they call me that, I
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do not know
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For my name was Elisa Day

Verse 5
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On the second day I brought
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her a flower
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She was more beautiful than any
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woman I'd seen
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I said, "Do you know where
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the wild roses grow
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So sweet and scarlet and free?"

Verse 6
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On the second day he came
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with a single red rose
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"Will you give me your
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loss and your sorrow?"
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I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed
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"If I show you the roses,
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will you follow?"

Verse 7
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They call me the wild rose
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But my name was Elisa Day
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Why they call me that, I
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do not know
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For my name was Elisa Day

Verse 8
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On the third day took me to the river
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He showed me the roses and we kissed
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And the last thing I heard
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was a muttered word
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As he  knelt above me with
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a rock in his fist

Verse 9
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On the last day I took her
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where the wild roses grow
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She lay on  the bank,
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the wind light as a thief
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As I kissed her goodbye,
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I said that beauty must die
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And leant down and planted a
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rose between her teeth

Verse 10
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They call me the wild rose
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But my name was Elisa Day
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Why they call me it, I do not know
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For my name was Elisa Day
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For my name was Elisa Day
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For my name was Elisa Day