Rose in paradise
D - C - G -
D
D C
1. She was a flower for the takin',
G D
her
beauty cut just like a knife,
D C
he
was a banker from Macon,
G
D
he
swore he'd love her all a his life.
D C
2. He bought her a mansion on
a mountain,
G D
with
a formal garden and a lot a land,
D C
but
paradise became her prison,
G
D
that
Georgia banker was a jealous man !
Bm G
Every time he'd talk about
her,
Bm G
- A
you
could see the fire in his ey....es,
he'd say,
D C
"I would walk through Hell
on Sunday,
G D
to
keep my Rose in Paradise.”
D
C
3. He
hired a man to tend the garden,
G D
and
keep an eye on her while he was gone.
D C
Some say they ran away
together,
G
D
some
say that gardener left alone.
D C
4. Now the
banker is an old man,
G D
that mansion's tumbling down.
D
C
He sits all day and he stares
at the garden,
G
D
not a
trace of her was ever found.
Bm G
And every time he talks about
her,
Bm G - A
you
can see the fire in his ey....es,
he says,
D
C
"I would walk through
Hell on Sunday,
G D
to
keep my Rose in Paradise.”
D C
5. Now there's a rose out in
the garden,
G D
its
beauty cuts just like a knife,
D
C
they
say that it even grows in the winter time,
G
D
and
blooms in the dead of the night.
+ D - C - G - D
(3x) …..
(orig. = capo 1st; live = capo 2nd) (Waylon
Jennings)