Where The Wild Roses Grow

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

   Gm               Cm Gm
R: They call me The Wild Rose   
   B            D
   But my name was Elisa Day
   Gm                  Cm Gm
   Why they call me it I do not know  
   F     Gm
   For my name was Elisa Day

   Gm                         B
1. From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
   Cm                     D
   As she stared in my eyes and smiled
   Gm                         B
   For her lips were the color of the roses
   Cm                        D
   They grew down the river, all bloody and wild

2. When he knocked on my door and entered the room
   My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
   He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
   He wiped the tears that ran down my face

3. On the second day I brought her a flower
   She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
   I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow
   So sweet and scarlet and free?"

4. On the second day he came with a single rose
   Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?"
   I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed
   He said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?"

5. On the third day he took me to the river
   He showed me the roses and we kissed
   And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
   As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist

6. On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
   And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
   As I kissed her goodbye, I said, "All beauty must die"
   And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

R: They call me The Wild Rose...
   
   Gm       F     Gm
   For my name was Elisa Day
   Gm       F     Gm
   For my name was Elisa Day