Rose Of England
Nick Lowe Key
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Verse 1
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Taking nothing but his daddy's old bone-grip knife
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He traded but a little for the wayward life
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A faint heart never won fair hand
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So says the Rose of England
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Verse 2
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From a-high on a hill came the clarion call
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To gain young men, "Come one, come all
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Make muster 'gainst the foreign hand
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That's raised to the Rose of England!"
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Verse 3
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For her feckless boys she did weep and wail
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Saying, "Lord have mercy, where did I fail?
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Out my belly, they pick up a gun
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And fall for the Rose of England"
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Bridge
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God knows it's a cold outside
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It's a fry by day and a froze by night
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I know it's a hell out there
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How loud the mouth when the heart don't care
Verse 4
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He's damned if he don't, and damned if he do
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He'd die if he ever found out we knew
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Hot potato, drop it and run
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Far from the Rose of England
Instrumental
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Bridge
A D A
God knows it's a cold outside
E D
It's a fry by day and a froze by night
A D A
I know it's a hell out there
E B
How loud the mouth when the heart don't care
Verse 5
E A E
He's damned if he don't, and damned if he do
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He'd die if he ever found out we knew
E A E
Hot potato, drop it and run
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Far from the Rose of England
Tag
C#m A B E
Far from the Rose of England
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Far from the Rose of En-ga-land
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Far from the Rose of En----gland
Outro
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(fade out)
Chords Used