Bed Of Roses - Statler Brothers

Bed Of Roses chords

Artist: Statler Brothers
Transcribed: J. Jezard
Subject: Bed of Roses

You'll have to figure out how it starts. I still can't figure it out.


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she was called the scarlet woman by the people
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who would go to Church, but left me in the street
              A                           D
with no kinfolk of my own,  I never had a home
           B7                                                   E
and a eighteen year old boy has got to eat


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She found me outside one Sunday morning
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Begging money from someone I didn't know
A                           D                      A
She took me in a wipe away my childhood
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A woman of the streets, that lady rose


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E
This bed of rose's that I lay on, where I was taught to be a man
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E     A
This bed of rose's that I live in, is the only kind of life I understand


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E
she was a handsome woman just fourty-five, who was spoken to in town by very
few
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E
She managed a late evening business, like most of the town wish they could
do.


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Well I learned all the things, that a man should know
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from a woman not approved of I suppose
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E                         A
but she died knowing that I really loved her, from life bramble bush I
picked a rose