Rosemary Chords by Scott Walker

[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Voices from a photograph _ _
Laugh from your wall
_ _ Scream through your [Dm] dreams
_ Wake up, Rosemary _
And wipe your [Am] teary _ _ _ _ eyes
_ _ Rise [Em] _
_ _ _ and cross the cold bare floor
And watch the moon
Through frosted glass
[Dm] _ Damn that photograph
_ _ [Am] I'll have to take it _ down _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ She [A] hears the votes [E] as they move down [A] the river
[G] _ She [C] sees a dog straining [Dm] hard on his _ [Am] leash to get away
_ [C] _ [E] _ She [A] hears the clock [E] and it strikes [A] like a hammer
[G] _
Hounding [C] the nails one [Dm] day further in the coffin [Am] of her [Em] youth _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Evenings _ _ _ _ with your mother's _ friends
_ Pregnant eyes, _ _ [G] sagging [Dm] chins, _ swollen fingertips
_ _ Poor [Am] antique cups of tea
_ _ _ _ Who [Em] _
_ _ are you and where you been?
_ Suspended in a weightless [G] wind
_ [Dm] _ Watching trains go by _ from [Am] platforms in the _ [Em] _ rain
_ [Am] _ _
Hey, [E] look at [A] the photograph
[E] _
Dream [A] back last summer
[G] Dream [C] back the lips [Dm] of that traveling salesman, Mr.
[Am]
Jim
_ _ _ [E] He [A] smelled of miracles [E] with [A] stained-glass [G] whispers
You [C] loved his laughter
_ [Dm] You trembled beneath [Em] him once again _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
That's [G] what I _ [Bm] _ _
[Em] was
_ And you [Bm] shot it live
_ [G] But my coat's too thin
_ [Ab] _ My feet won't fly
_ [E] And I watch the wind
[Bm] And I see another dream
_ _ _ [Em] Blowing _ _ by _ _ _ _
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