Standard Tuning

Intro Chords: 
E D A E E4 E
E D A E

         E             D
I knew a girl named Rosalie,
         A             E
We used to hang out in the park,
        E                 D
We used to score the system grease,
         A             E
From the fellas after dark.
         E                    D
We used to sail the streets at night,
         A                E
Used to hang out in the rain,
         E                D
She had a bad time in the bowery,
         A               E
Caught a bullet in the teeth.

E               D
Rosalie come and go,
A               E
Rosalie come and stay,
              D
Rosalie come and go,
         A
Oh never liked you anyway.

         E            D
I knew a girl named Mary Ann,
          A             E
She had a camera and a cane,
            E                D
She used to walk me to the station,
            Fm
When I was dying in the rain.

            E            D
She was a friend of Rosalie's,
           A                    E
They had a nurse they liked to share,
          E                      D
and when Mary Ann was doing the doctor,
               A           E
You know his cupboards went bare.

   E             D
Rosalie come and go,
  A               E
Rosalie come and stay,
               D
Rosalie come and go,
           A        E
I never liked you anyway.

  E              D
Rosalie come and go,
  A              E
Rosalie come and stay,
               D
Rosalie come and go,
          A         E
I never liked you anyway.

       E                   D
I knew a boy named Billy Haynes,
          A            E
He had it all figured out,
          E                   D
He had a trail of dust and branches marked,
                Fm
To get him back down south.

         E                   D
But the blue lights had his number,
             A                    E
And he was sweating hard from the heat,
           E                     D
He's got a pack of bullets in his satchel
        A             E
Down on forty second street.

   E             D
Rosalie come and go,
  A               E
Rosalie come and stay,
               D
Rosalie come and go,
           A        E
I never liked you anyway.

  E              D
Rosalie come and go,
  A              E
Rosalie come and stay,
               D
Rosalie come and go,
          A         E
I never liked you anyway.


tabbed by Thomas J. Carter