Intro: C G D Em C G D
C G
Darling mother would you guide my hand
D Em
My love she’s in America with a terry band
C G
Her dark-flowing hair rolls all down her breast
D Em
It’s as soft as the night that she went and left
C G
Sandy was the river that she walked
D Em
It was out the door and it was off the dock,
C G
The thunder ahead and the steamboat’s dreams
D Em
Of lily-white smoke and fine rafting things.
C G D Em (x2) (With harmonica)
C G
She boarded that ship and she sent it well
D Em
Fast and lonesome as a kind farewell
C G
I asked her grace for twelve little towns
D Em
With a market in all and open fields around
C G
She took the East, and she took the West
D Em
Elizabeth’s the girl that I love the best
C G
My house was robbed when I shut the door
D Em
And boarded it up with a rusted oar.
C G D
An oar.
C G
Bring me a rose, St. Therese, St. Therese
D Em
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese, St. Therese
C G
All the little flowers are covered and blessed
D Em
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese.
C G D Em (x2) (With harmonica)
C G
I saw her at the market just yesterday
D Em
I said hello but she looked the other way
C G
She wore a coat of black and two old shoes
D Em
And my eyes were light with the devil’s dues
C G
I gave her a whistle and three hundred cries
D Em
And there I found a rose as white as lye
C G
You can wash with water every day
D Em
But that dirt will stain your hide in the same old way.
C G D
That way.
C G D Em (x2) (with harmonica)
C G D Em C G D (with violin)
C G
Now two devils danced on a barrel of lime
D Em
You know they’re devils, mama, but you took a bad time
C G
It was a slipped-up jig with iron feet
D Em
That fled like a coward when lovers meet
C G
But there in the garden I can see you fine
D Em
Your hand full of roses smell better than wine
C G
To scatter your flowers for the one you love
D Em
As tender as the lightning in the sky above.
C G D Em C G D
Above, Above.
C G
Bring me a rose, St. Therese, St. Therese
D Em
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese, St. Therese.
C G
All the little flowers are covered and blessed
D Em
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese.
C G D Em C G D
A Rose, a rose.
C G
Now Bring me a rose, St. Therese, St. Therese
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese, Therese.
All the little flowers are covered and blessed
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese.