Capo 5 | ------------------3----2--------------------------3---2--0h2-------------------- | | ------------------3----3--------------------------3---3------3------------------ | | --------------0---0---2---------0------------0----0---2--------2---------------- | | -------0---0h2----0--0----0-2-4---4-2-0---0h2-----0---0---------------0h2------- | | ---0h2----3------2-----------------------3-------2----------------0h2-------3--- | | --3-------------3-------------------------------3------------------------------- | And come in with the C chord for the verse C5 G5 Her people come from Nineveh D5 E5 His people come from Rural Shade C5 G5 They met in the tent D5 On the traveling Nazarene C5 G5 She took his big hand in hers D5 E5 Led him from the tent to the piney woods D5 E5 Both sixteen C5 G5 A few months later they got married D5 E5 A few more months RoseofSharon got born C5 G5 D5 While he was out cutting pulp C5 G5 A logging chain whipped D5 E5 He never walked again D5 E5 It was an accidental thing C5 G5 So he drank when they had money D5 E5 She worked as a serving girl C5 G5 D5 In the rich folk?s houses in town C5 G5 RoseofSharon grew up D5 E5 Cutting pictures out of magazines D5 E5 Of houses big and clean Interlude: C5 G5 D5 E5 C5 G5 D5 C5 G5 RoseofSharon ran away
D Em With a boy selling bibles C5 G5 Crossed the line in Shreveport D5 Turned 16 C5 G5 Calls her mother from the payphone D5 E5 A laundromat in Natchez D5 It?s not exactly what I dreamed C5 G5 Palestine, Palestine D5 E5 Oh Palestine D5 We?ve got Satan on the run E5 Shouts the Nazarene