Rosanne Cash – When The Master Calls The Roll (Guitar)

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Girl with hair of flaming red

C       G       D  
Seeking perfect lover

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For to lie down on her feather bed

     C            D   
Soft secrets to uncover

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Must be gentle, must be strong

     C    G      D  
With disposition sunny

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Just as faithful as the day is long

    C                D   
And careful with his money

    D           C      G 
And so the open letter read

    C        G   D  
The news boy did deliver

G            C                D       Em 
Three months later plans were made to wed

     C                 D   
Down by the King James river

D                  G 
Lo, the season may come

D                  G 
Lo, the season may go

     C               G 
What love has joined together

     G       G F#    Em   
Will forever be made whole

         C                G 
When the Master calls the roll

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Oh my darling William Lee

C       G      D  
Take me to the altar

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I don't have strength to watch you as you leave

       C               D   
But my love will never falter

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Oh, my darling Mary Anne

    C        G      D  
The march to war is calling

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Somewhere far across these southern lands

    C                 D   
Are bands of brothers falling

D                    C     Em 
My tender bride, the tides demand

       C         G         D  
That I leave you with your mother

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With my father's rifle in one hand

         C             D   
And your locket in the other

D                  G 
Lo, the season may come

D                  G 
Lo, the season may go

  C                     G 
Beware the storm clouds gather

     G          G F#   Em   
Take heed, dear mortal soul

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When the Master calls the roll

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But can this union be preserved?

    C       G       D  
The soldier boy was crying

G      C            D       Em 
I will never travel back to her

    C               D   
But not for lack of trying

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It's a love of one true heart-ed lass

     C        G     D  
That made the boy a hero

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But a rifle ball and a cannon blast

C               D   
Cut him down to zero

D           C        Em 
Oh Virginia whence I came

     C       G        D  
I'll see you when I'm younger

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And I'll know you by your hills again

     C                  D   
This time from six feet under

D                  G 
Lo, the season may come

D                  G 
Lo, the season may go

     C            G 
What man has torn asunder

     G       G F#    Em   
Will someday be made whole

         C                G 
When the Master calls the roll

C                       G 
Though the storm clouds gather

        G     G F#    Em   
Let the Union be made whole

         C                G 
When the Master calls the roll