Chords for There were roses - Tommy Sands (2010)

[Eb] The memory of awakening in the world of [N] music was watching all these feet _ _ pounding to the
same rhythm regardless of their religious affiliations or political persuasions.
And I realised early on that music was something that could connect up [Eb] all those secret things
within us and the sacred things within us.
[E] Sometimes a better knowing and a [C] _ _ better_
And I remember one night in the summer time when the roses were out along the hedges and
we could hear explosions going off from the town of Newry six miles away and we could
hear the drums being played just a few fields away. _ _
Someone said no matter how close troubles get to us here it won't change us because
we're friends, we know each other, we work together.
_ One year from that day many things changed.
_ It took me almost ten years to write a song about it.
I was about to put a hat on, but I always hit the song with a war anyway.
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[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] My song for you is here, it's not to be said.
The fur lines [G] and the sorrows of this [C] troubled northern land.
Take my eye, don't think again, and it just won't leave the night.
Now we all have two friends, one time [F] they were both [C] good friends of ours.
Out on the path on the bay now, he lived just across the fields.
Great man [G] for the music [Am] and the [C] dancing and the wheels.
Oh [C] man he came from so far [A] above, the courage young [C] man was fair.
[Am] And mid-afternoon he turned the right [F] road and the laughter [C] filled the air.
_ There were roses, _ _ _ _ roses, there [F] were _
[C] _ [G] roses.
[Am] And a team of people [C] [F] ran together.
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[C] Oh and when he was Protestant and Sean was Catholic born.
It never [G] made a difference, but [C] friendship it was strong.
Sometimes in the evening when we heard the sound of drums.
We said one [G] voice, [F] you will [C] always be the one.
On the ground our fathers ploughed in, the soil is the same.
And the place where [G] we sail breaks, [F] but it's got [C] different needs.
We talk about the friends who died and we hope they're being home.
[Am] Soon [G] then we'll be [F] like the children [C] in school.
There [F] were [C] roses, _ [F] _ _ [C] roses, [F] there were _ [C] _ _ [G] roses.
[Am] And a team [G]
of people ran [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ together.
It's not a Sunday morning, only a police came around.
And another killing [G] has been done, [F] it is done saying [C] weary time.
He knew that our London's not fair, [F] he knew he'd [C] like the band.
And the [G] air was dead, [F] just like the [C] land.
_ Cameron Eye, the grave site, on a cold rainy day.
And the minister [G] closed his [F] eyes and he prayed for [C] our holy family.
And all the ones in UN, [F] from the [C] London brand new.
[Am] We bowed our heads [G] and we said pray [F] for the prestige [C] of the soul.
_ There [F] were [Em] roses, _ [F] _ _ [Em] roses, [F] there were _ _ [G] roses.
[Am] And he and [G] I, _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] we built a happy site, a ghostly and happy home.
And we carved it in proud [F] love, a [C] lonely rye and rye.
A Catholic would be killed to make the way of God's law.
[Am] Christ, [G] it's your [F] money that they're taking [C] from you.
And a friendly cry, the end of the spear.
The [G] centuries needed, [F] the years [C] of eternity.
And I, Father and I, was all for the right.
And a mother [G] I, Father, [F] I, felt I'd [C] make a movie's delight.
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[Em] _ _ [F] There were [G] roses, _ there were [C] roses, there were roses.
_ [Am] Did it [G] all, _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] that day. _
_ [C] Though your song's pure music, it's enough to make me sad.
Like for [G] outageous [F] sorrows of this [C] troubled, lonely land.
Make me idle, think and I wonder just what will leave my mind
Tell your two [G] friends, don't tell them they're [C] both good friends of mine
I don't know where tomorrow is, or where this song should end
But I wonder just [G] how many [F] walls are thought [C] between good friends
I'm lost again in your eyes, I'm not the one to die
[Am] It's not [G] over for [F] me, I'm not [C] the one to die _ _
[F] The _ [G] roses, _ [F] _ _ [C]
roses, [F] they're [C] all on my _ [G] mind
[Am] I'm deep [G] in love with you, I'm not [F] the one _ [C] to _ [G] die
[F] The _ [C] roses, _ [F] _ _ [C] roses, [F] they're [C] all on my mind _ _ _ _ _ _
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