Yellow Roses On Her Gown chords by Johnny Mathis

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Intro 1

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I was born in

Verse 1
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San    Francisco when the bay was full of cruisers
Where the west wind smells of fishing boat
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s for fifty miles around
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My father wore a crew cut,
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he was lean and he was handsome
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And my mother wore a sash
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of yellow roses on her gown
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They would walk me down

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Verse 2
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from Green Street
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Pass cathedrals on the hill sides
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And the carillons could fill the hearts
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of any one in town
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I remember how they looked then,
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when their eyes were always   living
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When my father loved a girl with yellow roses on
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Verse 3
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Then we moved to Placer County where
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the weather was ajoker
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And I watched my parents laughter
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turn from amber into ice
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But my father never stumbled,
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he would tell me things would change soon
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He would bear and bear the insults
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of a pair of loaded dice
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And my mother stood beside him
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though her heart was on the hill side
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Of a city where a soldier and
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his lover bedded down
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And at night amid the    whisper
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of the pines in Manzanita
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She would cry into the sash of yellow roses on her

Interlude 1

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Now my father's living eastward
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by the Sacramento River
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And he swears to me he's happy
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with his practice and some land
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In the springtime and the summer
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when the fog is off the valley
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I  visit him on weekends,
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his grass is overgrown
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Sometimes after dinner,
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I will gaze away   the evening
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In the attic at a sash of yellow roses
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on her gown
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