Give Me The Roses While I (live)

Carter Family

Intro (I try to slide up and down bits of riff) e 33333--5--7--5--3333--2---7--8--7--2--3333---------| b 33333--5--7--5--3333--1---4--5--4--1--3333---------| g 00000-----------0000--2---5--5--5--2--0000---------| D 0---0-----------0-----0---------------0-----0--2--4| A 2---2-----------2---------------------3------------| E 3---3-----------3---------------------3------------| verse 1 Wonderful things of folks are said When they have passed away Roses adorn the narrow bed Over the sleeping clay Give me the roses while I live Trying to cheer me on Useless are flowers that you give After the soul is gone verse 2 Praises are heard not by the dead Roses they cannot speak Let us not wait till souls have fled Generous friends to be Chorus riff on Chorus in country style verse 3 Faults are forgiven when folks lie Cold in a narrow bed Let us forgive them ere they die Now should the words be said Chorus

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