Where The Wild Roses Grow

Chords

Standard

Gm               Cm Gm 
They call me The Wild Rose
        Bb            D
But my name was Elisa Day
          Gm                  Cm Gm
Why they call me it I do not know
                F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day 

         Gm                         Bb
From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
       Cm                     D
She stared in my eyes and smiled
        Gm                         Bb
For her lips were the color of the roses
     Cm                        D
That grew down the river, all bloody and wild 

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

# Chorus, then second verse; same as the first

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?" 

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

# Chorus, then final verse
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 muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist 

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
As I kissed her goodbye, I said, "All beauty must die"
And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth 


# Last chorus
     Gm               Cm Gm 
They call me The Wild Rose
        Bb            D
But my name was Elisa Day
          Gm                  Cm Gm
Why they call me it I do not know
                F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day 
                F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day  
               F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day