Chords for "Rosewood Jesus"- Fire Next Time

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_ I was born in [C#] _ _ 1923 _ _
In [A#m] the border forest where the rose meets [G#] the trees _
My _ _ [Fm] mama named me Jesus for [C#] the air we breathe
_ _ _ [Fm] I was born in [G#] _ _ [C#] 1923
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[A#m] My father settled [C#] on the cotton rail
_ Most [A#m] _ of folks fled [C#] when the [G#] forest fell _ _
_ When with [A#m] the great migration and [C#] the trumpet _ wail
_ _ _ [A#m] My father settled [G#] on the cotton [C#] _ rail
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[A#m] My uncle was a preaching _ man _ _
Held a good book in his [G#] right hand
He _
_ _ [A#m] blessed [F#] my body and [C#] my father's land _
_ _ [A#m] My uncle [G#] was a preaching [C#] _ man _
The _ _ [A#m] day [F#] I was [C#] born the church burned down
_ _ _ [A#m] People [F#] came [C#] from miles [G#] _
around
They _ _ _
[A#m] found [F#] my uncle [C#] hanging upside _ down
The _
[A#m] day I [F#] was born [G#] the church [C#] burned down _ _ _
And [A#m] they say _ that people [C#] were screaming
_ _ _ And [A#m] they say _ that they were calling [C#] his _ name
_ But [A#m] there was no [F#] God in Rosewood [G#] when the white [C#] man came _ _ _ _ _
[A#m] _ [F#] Sammy Faden [C#] was a good old girl _ _
[A#m] White [F#] pretty [C#] face, head [G#] full of curls _ _ _
_ [A#m] She held [F#] more lovers [C#] than the ocean _ pearls
_ _ [A#m] _ [F#] Sammy Faden [G#] was a [C#] good old girl
She _ _ _ [A#m] _
[F#] said in the night [C#] her black man come
_ The [A#m] _
[F#] girls she [C#] had left [G#] her with none _ _ _ _
[A#m] But the [F#] neighbors, for they [C#] saw a white man run
_ She [A#m] _ [F#] said in the [G#] night her black [C#] man come _ _ _
_ [A#m] The [F#] sheriff he [C#] knew what to do
_ _ [A#m] Deputies [F#] as the men [C#] built [G#] him a crew
_ _ _ [A#m] They said justice [F#] get away [C#] we got lynching to _ _ do
[A#m] Oh the [F#] sheriff he [G#] knew what [C#] to do _ _ _ _ _
[A#m] My [F#] brother [C#] died on a railroad _ track _ _ _
[A#m] _ [F#] Fourteen years [C#] old, built [G#] by the stack _ _ _
_ [A#m] Oh they burned [F#] his feet [C#] and they whipped his back _
_ _ [A#m] My [F#] brother [G#] died on a [C#] railroad track _
_ _ _ [A#m] And they _ say _ that people [C#] were screaming _ _ _
And [A#m] they say _ that they were [C#] calling his _ name _ _
[A#m] But there was no God [F#] in Rosewood when [G#] the white [C#] man came _ _
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_ _ _ [A#m] And they say _ _ that people [C#] were screaming _ _ _ _
And [A#m] they say that they were calling his _ name
But [A#m] there was no God in Rosewood [G#] when the white [C#] man came
_ No _ [A#m] there was no [F#] God in Rosewood when [G#] the white [C#] man came
No there was no God in Rosewood when the white man came _ _
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