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[Verse 1]
N.C.     Em     A
She sang with a voice,
           Em            A
Fresh as a cool mountain river,
           Em         A             Em  A
That could wave Madam Butterfly goodbye,
          Em     A
She could cut my wrist,
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With a smile like shoeshine,
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While her eyeballs rolling like Stromboli.


[Pre-Chorus]
B    A    G     A     G      D    Em
Rita Rose never spoke French with me.


[Verse 2]
    Em            A
Her skin white as snow,
             Em       A
She blew the darkness out of my head,
          Em        A        Em     A
She could eat tiger balls on toast.


[Pre-Chorus]
B    A    G     A     G      D    Em
Rita Rose never spoke French with me.


[Chorus]
D Dsus4 D  G     A     D
R-i-----ta Rose, Rose, Rose,
D Dsus4 D   G            A           D
Ne------ver spoke, spoke French with me,
D Dsus4 D  G     A     D
R-i-----ta Rose, Rose, Rose,
D Dsus4 D   C            G           D
Ne------ver spoke, spoke French with me,


[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
          Em            A
She was a madness in my life,
          Em              A
She could walk out of the jungle,
         Em        A
With her eyelashes,
  Em   A
Intact,
    Em            A
Her teeth white as snow,
     Em             A
They seemed not her own,
          Em               A            Em
She could kill a bull with her flamingo eyes.
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Cold as ice.


[Pre-Chorus]
B    A    G     A     G      D    Em
Rita Rose never spoke French with me.


[Chorus]
D Dsus4 D  G     A     D
R-i-----ta Rose, Rose, Rose,
D Dsus4 D   G            A           D
Ne------ver spoke, spoke French with me,
D Dsus4 D  G     A     D
R-i-----ta Rose, Rose, Rose,
D Dsus4 D   G            A           D
Ne------ver spoke, spoke French with me,


[Chorus]
D Dsus4 D  G     A     D
R-i-----ta Rose, Rose, Rose,
D Dsus4 D   G            A           D
Ne------ver spoke, spoke French with me,
D Dsus4 D  G     A     D
R-i-----ta Rose, Rose, Rose,
D Dsus4 D   G            A           D
Ne------ver spoke, spoke French with me,


[Outro]
D Dsus4 D  G     A     D
R-i-----ta Rose, Rose, Rose,
D Dsus4 D   G            A           D
Ne------ver spoke, spoke French with me,
D Dsus4 D  G     A     D
R-i-----ta Rose, Rose, Rose,
D Dsus4 D   C            G           D
Ne------ver spoke, spoke French with me.