Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Where The Wild Roses Grow (Ukulele)

          Gm                        F Gm 
They call me The Wild Rose

              Bb                       D7
But my name was Elisa Day

                 Gm                           F Gm
Why they call me it I do not know

              Gm             F      Gm
For my name was Elisa Day 

                 Gm                                        Bb
From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one

              Cm                                 D7
As she stared in my eyes and smiled

               Gm                                     Bb
For her lips was the color of the roses

          Cm                                     D
They grew down the river, all bloody and wild 

                 Gm                                       Bb
When he knocked on my door and entered the room

      Cm                                   D7
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace

                Gm                                  Bb
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand

      Cm                                     D
He wiped up the tears that ran down my face 

         Gm                        F Gm 
They call me The Wild Rose

              Bb                       D
But my name was Elisa Day

                 Gm                          F Gm
Why they call me it I do not know

              Gm             F       Gm
For my name was Elisa Day 

              Gm                                          Bb
On the second day I brought her a flower

                          Cm                           D7
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen

  Gm                                                 Bb
I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow

     Cm                                  D
So sweet and scarlet and free?" 

              Gm                                          Bb
On the second day he came with a single red rose

                 Cm                                           D7
He said: "give me your loss and your sorrow?"

   Gm                                 Bb
I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed

                       Cm                                             D
He said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?" 

          Gm                        F Gm 
They call me The Wild Rose

              Bb                        D
But my name was Elisa Day

                 Gm                          F Gm
Why they call me it I do not know

              Gm             F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day 

             Gm                                            Bb
On the third day he took me to the river

      Cm                                               D7
He showed me the roses and we kissed

               Gm                                     Bb
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word

      Cm                                        D
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist 

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

               Cm                                         D7
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief

           Gm                                                  Bb
And I kissed her goodbye, I said, "All beauty must die"

           Cm                                      D
And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth 

         Gm                        F   Gm 
They call me The Wild Rose

              Bb                       D
But my name was Elisa Day

                 Gm                           F Gm 
Why they call me it I do not know

              Gm              F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day

              Gm              F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day

              Gm              F     Gm
For my name was Elisa Day