Nick Lowe – The Rose Of England (Guitar)

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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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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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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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  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

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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

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

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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

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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

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(fade out)