How to Play "Love Is A Rose" Guitar chords
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Love Is A Rose by Neil Young
Linda Ronstadt version
Key of D major 4/4 Time Tempo (1/4 note) = 138
Chords
D5add9 D G A7
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Intro (Note! Strum D5add9 and let ring, then hammer on F# to sound D)
D5add9 D D5add9 D G / D /
Chorus
D / / / G / D /
Love is a rose but you better not pick it
D / / / A7 / D /
It only grows when it's on the vine
D / / / G / D /
Hand full of thorns and you know you missed it
D / / / A7 / D /
Loose your love when you say the word mine
Verse 1
G / / / D / / /
I wanna see what's never been seen
A7 / / / D / / /
I wanna live that age old dream
G / / / D / / /
Come on boy let's go to - get - her
A7 / / / D / / /
Let's take the best right now
Chorus
Verse 2
G / / / D / / /
I wanna go to an old hoe down
A7 / / / D / /
Long a - go in a west - ern town
G / / / D / / /
Pick me up cause my feet are draggin"
A7 / / / D / / /
Gimme a lift and I'll hay your wagon
Chorus (Repeat and Fade)
D / / / G / D /
Love is a rose
D / / / A7 / D /
Love is a rose
I love the sound of the D5add9 hammer-on to D. I have some fun with it by
adding it to different D chords though out the song. Enjoy.
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