Capo 5
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And come in with the C chord for the verse
C G
Her people come from Nineveh
D Em
His people come from Rural Shade
C G
They met in the tent
D
On the traveling Nazarene
C G
She took his big hand in hers
D Em
Led him from the tent to the piney woods
D Em
Both sixteen
C G
A few months later they got married
D Em
A few more months RoseofSharon got born
C G D
While he was out cutting pulp
C G
A logging chain whipped
D Em
He never walked again
D Em
It was an accidental thing
C G
So he drank when they had money
D Em
She worked as a serving girl
C G D
In the rich folk?s houses in town
C G
RoseofSharon grew up
D Em
Cutting pictures out of magazines
D Em
Of houses big and clean
Interlude: C G D Em C G D
C G
RoseofSharon ran away
D Em
With a boy selling bibles
C G
Crossed the line in Shreveport
D
Turned 16
C G
Calls her mother from the payphone
D Em
A laundromat in Natchez
D
It?s not exactly what I dreamed
C G
Palestine, Palestine
D Em
Oh Palestine
D
We?ve got Satan on the run
Em
Shouts the Nazarene
