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                SONG TITLE: Where The Wild Roses Grow
              ARTIST/GROUP: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
                     ALBUM: Murder Ballads
            TRANSCRIBED BY: qualitytabs@qualitytabs.tk
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CHORDS:
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    EADGBE
Em (022000)     You use a capo on the third fret, so
Am (x02210)     this song is actually in the key of Gm.
G  (320033)     However, all chord names are relative to
B7 (x21202)     the capo. (It's a lot less confusing)
D  (xx0232)


CHORUS:
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   Em                 Am Em
He called me the wild ro-ose
       G              B7
But my name was Eliza Day
       Em                      Am  Em
Why he called me that I do not kno-ow
       Em       D     Em
For my name was Eliza Day


VERSE 1:
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         Em                         G
From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
    Am                    B7
She stared in my eyes and smiled
    Em                          G
Her lips were the colour of the roses
     Am                      B7
That grow down the river all bloody and wild


VERSE 2:
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When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man and with a careful hand
He wiped off the tears that run down my face


REPEAT CHORUS


VERSE 3:
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On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said "Do you know where the wild roses grow
so sweet and scarlet and free?"


VERSE 4:
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On the second day he came with a single red rose
He said "Give me your lust and your sorrow"
I nodded my head as I lay on the bed
"If I show you the roses, will you follow?"


REPEAT CHORUS


VERSE 5:
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On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a martyr word
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist


VERSE 6:
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On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
She lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
And I kissed her goodbye, said all beauty must die
And I leant down and planted a rose between her teeth


REPEAT CHORUS


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