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Song Title: Song About A Rose         Artist: Pearls Before Swine
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Compiled by: James McKinnon

A lovely song by Tom Rapp from the Pearls' classic 1970 album,
'The Use of Ashes'. I've taken the chord sequence mainly from
the outtake version from the compilation album 'The Wizard of
Is' (2004), because the chords are more fully expressed. I think
the chords from the Use of Ashes version should be basically
the same. If there are any differences, I think they would be
very minor. I have modelled the outro more on the 'Use of
Ashes' version.

Time signature: 4/4 (Slowly)

[Intro]

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[Verse]

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      This is  a  song  about  a  rose                      Or perhaps it's a
                                                             song  about  the

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       shadow of a rose.          In the morning the      congregate   in
                                   apple sellers

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      corners of their own.  But you and I we sing  our    song about a rose,  or perhaps the shadow of a

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       rose.        With   the   children of Friborg    good thief standing by,  we consort in silent ren-
                                      and the                                    dezvous and

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    call the world a lie.
    When our

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    song is but a candle      one day burn away            children       of          Friborg
        that will                   and the

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     cannot hear what we         say.

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  This is a song about a rose,                      of lonely caravans     whispering to God

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    to chain the world        But people are not        life is not a song. And   even God can only guess
         in prose.                singers and

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   why or where or when      the answers all belong.  But you and I, we  sing   our song  about  a  rose
          or if

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