Cave Nick - Where The Wild Roses Grow guitar chord

Subject: CRD:Nick Cave-"Where the Wild Roses Grow"

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - "Where the Wild Roses Grow"

Comments, corrections, etc. welcome

Par Svensson, t89par@student.tdb.uu.se

Chorus:

Gm C5 Gm

He called me the wild ro-ose

A# D

But my name was Elisa Day

Gm C5 Gm

Why he called me that I do not kno-ow

Gm F5 Gm

For my name was Elisa Day

Gm A#

>From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one

Cm D

She stared in my eyes and smiled

Gm A#

Her lips were the colour of the roses

Cm D

That grow down the river all bloody and wild

Gm A#

When he knocked on my door and entered the room

Cm D

My trembling subsided in his sure embrace

Gm A#

He would be my first man and with a careful hand

Cm D D7

He wiped off the tears that run down my face

Chorus

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 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?"

Chorus

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

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow

She lay on the bank going 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

Chorus