Little Rosa Chords by Red Sovine

Little Rosa was [Eb] her name
And still [Bb] I cry in vain
My world won't be the same
Since she's gone [Eb] from me _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] I had gone to visit the [Eb] grave of a friend of mine
And as I walked through the graveyard
[Bb] I noticed this man kneeling down with the grave of a child
And in his hand he held a big red rose
And tears were streaming down his cheeks
[Fm] So I walked over and laid a hand on his shoulder and started to talk to him
And during the course of our conversation
[Ab] And in [Eb] his broken English
This is the story he_
Just as [Bb] he told it to me
_ He said, mister, I'm a walker down the street today and I pass by a big flower shop
I walk in and I ask the man in the shop, I say, boss
How much for [Eb] one of the red roses?
And he look at me with one big frown and he says, one dollar, please
_ [Ab] But then a by and [Eb] a by a swell-dressed blonde young lady walk in and
She says, how much for [Bb] one of the red roses?
And he look at her with one big smile and he says, ten cents
And I said, boss, how come you charging me a dollar for the rose?
He charged the young lady only ten cents
[Eb] And he says, look mister, you tell me why you want the rose and maybe I give it to you for naught
[Ab] _ [Eb] And I said, boss, I'm a hard worker man
Work in the railroad and [Bb] don't make too much money
And I got a little girl and her name is Rosa
_ _ Oh, Rosa's just about this high, boss _
[Fm] Every day when I come home from [Eb] work little Rosa come running to me to papa
And she throw the alarms around my neck and say, papa, [Ab] I see Rosa
[Eb] Oh, but the one that day, boss, I come home from work and I don't see [Bb] Rosa
I look down by the railroad track and I see one of the bigger crowd
I go down and I push the crowd this way and I push the crowd that way
And there, boss, at my feet lay my [Eb] little Rosa
_ And that's the one I want the rose, boss
I want to put it on [Ab] little Rosa's grave
And I say, I [Eb] don't know, the man, he don't say enough
But he picked the biggest [Bb] and the reddest rose and he give it to me _
And I say, thank you, boss, _ thank you very much
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
And though [Ab] she's [Eb] gone, you see _
She's still [Bb] the world to me
To me she'll always be _
That little girl [F] _ _ of mine
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _