Chords for Hugh Moffatt Rose Of My Heart

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This next song has _ _ _ _ _ a really interesting history.
It's an older song of mine.
Not that that's unusual these days, but _ you know, _ _ I had a rude awakening as a musician about, you know, when I was, _ _ _ oh, I guess
_ _ _ several years ago, I really, what I really wanted was an old Martin guitar.
_ This has [Bb] nothing to do with the song, by the way.
_ But _ _ it _ was just one of the things.
I [Em] actually had one early on and through _ circumstances I [D] didn't have it anymore.
I just wanted a really [Bm] old, rich Martin guitar.
_ [A] Realized that, you know, I wasn't going to just,
[B] _ no one was just [Ab] going to give it to me and I couldn't [N] really afford the guitar I wanted, so I gave up.
I bought this really nice guitar that was three or four years old.
And just gave up that dream and then, _ you know, a couple of years ago I pulled it out from under the bed and it was an old Martin.
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_ That's not [Fm] what I meant. _
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_ _ [Bb] So this song, I think, was written before I got that old Martin.
_ [F] _ _ But it's been around a bit.
It's never been the hit or anything, but a lot of people have sung it.
_ And then a few years ago I got _ an email from a friend of mine with Grounded [Em] Records who [Gb] had heard this
and told me that Johnny Cash [D] had learned this song and was, _ and the obvious implication was that he was going to record it. _
Well, _ _ I was [Bm] pretty excited [Bb] about that and three days [Bb] later I woke up and turned the radio on and Johnny Cash had died.
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I [Ab] just hoped it hadn't been my song.
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But, so _ [A] that's actually, _ unfortunately, a rather typical [E] music business story.
The part that's not typical is that a year and a [G] half later [D] this song turned up on the album that he had recorded just [Bb] before he died. _ _
And nobody [N] knew that, not that I knew of, not my publisher, not anybody.
_ [Dm] Now _ _ that's what [E] makes the story.
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_ _ _ _ A flower not fading or [Bb] falling apart
If your [F] time is to care
Oh [C] my heart, _ Rose, my [Bb] _ _ _ heart
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When sorrow holds [Bb] you in her arms
And [C] it's _ raindrops that fall from [F] your _ eyes
_ Your smile's like the sun come [Bb] to earth for a day
[F] You brighten my blackened [C]
stuffed _ skies
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You are the rose of [Bb] my heart
_ _ [C] You are the love of [F] my _ life
A flower not fading [Bb] or falling apart
[F] If you're cold, my love, make [C] you warm
_ Rose, [F] my _ _ heart
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_ _ _ _ Hard times or [G] easy times, what do I care?
_ [C] There's nothing I'd change [F] about good
_ _ The tears and the laughter, the things that we share
Your hand in mine makes all times good _ _ _
You are the rose of [Bb]
my heart
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You are [C] the love of [F] my _ _ life
A flower not fading [Bb] or falling apart
[F] If you're hard, my love, just [C] let a storm
Rose, [G] my heart
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