Chords for Mean Mary performing Rose Tattoo

_ _ [F#] _ _ [Bm] The sun's gonna rise [G] and in my cold green eyes is the hell [Bm] that I've been through
What I learned tonight
[G] Is that this world ain't right and [F#m] the devil's got a [Bm] rose tattoo
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_ We're 51 we arrived [E] at the club [F#] I was wearing a nice [Bm] dress
My auntie bet everything we could get and [F#] I was trying to get us out [Bm] of the mess
Nine o'clock I made my [Em] walk like a [F#] tigress to the [Bm] stage
People would [G] stand like I was worth ten [F#] grand and I'd sing it for [Bm] them and the wage
Ten minutes [G] in they were passing the [F#] gin and the club [Bm] became a row
I was wearing a [G] ball but all I recall [F#] is the face when he [Bm] looked toward the door
I was going to town [G] when I first came down [F#] and the dance floor became [Bm] a two
A woman stepped in she was tall and slim
[F#] But her peck up filled the [Bm] whole darn room
A man went pale [G] like a torn up sail
[F#] A woman walked right [Bm] past
Her dress was red like [G] a stormy day and [F#] it glowed like a restless [Bm] sea
I looked flat on her nose, [G] I was watching her throat, she [F#] wore a necklace of pure [Bm] jade
And her sleeve hung down off the [G] side of her gown to show [F#] a rose down her shoulder [Bm] blade
I [G] lost sight of her and the rest was a blur as [Bm] I sang and faced the snake
[G] Eleven oh one I was finally done [F#] and I sprung like a cat from a cage
[G] It was long from there so I searched everywhere [Bm] till I found a girl I knew
[E] Said he left your show [G] about an hour ago [F#] with a woman with a rose tattoo
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_ walked through the street [G] till I was dead on my [F#] feet and I had every [Bm] joint I knew
I heard a man say [G] I saw that woman in grey [F#] I think her name is Pamela [Bm] Rooke
Where she's been [G] and what's her sin?
[F#] No one in New [Bm] Orleans knows
All they can [G] tell is she's an angel from hell [F#] with a tattoo [Bm] of a rose
_ Said I had her [G] hair and I had her down my [F#] hair and I was now in the bad part of [Bm] town
It was [G] 3am I followed some men [F#] to a club called the [Bm] Underground
I stepped inside [G] I could feel the life [F#] there was danger [Bm] in the room
Had a whole lot of sin, sweat and skin, [F#] and the smell of cheap perfume
[Bm] The lusty display [G] was a woman in [F#] grey smiling [Bm] like she knew
When she turned around [G] wearing her dress on [F#] down was a shot of either [Bm] rose tattoo
I saw the [G] love she deprived me of [F#] he was standing in that [Bm] restless throne
When suddenly [G] he noticed me [F#] and something just felt [Bm] all wrong
[G] I heard a shout, a knock, he mad, [Bm] my man got in the way
He [G] was dead as a dog before I hit the floor [F#] while the band continued to play
[G] I tried to scream but like a horrible dream [Bm] there was nothing I could do
_ [E] I [G] died, a siren cried, I [F#] saw the flash of a [Bm] rose tattoo
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_ On the [G] curb with a cop named [F#] Herb, transferred [Bm] out this mess
It's 5.25. [G] I feel barely alive [F#] and I'm wearing my [Bm] last good dress Sun's gonna rise and in my cold green eyes is the hell [Bm] that I've been through What I learned tonight is that this [G] world ain't right And [F#] the devil's got a [C#] rose _ [F#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D#] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _