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CHD: G C G
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CHORDS AND LYRICS (Bass runs are shown in square brackets [C B A] and
{PLAY INTRODUCTION}
G C G
Midweek and we reached Scarlet town
G C C/B Am
I was almost dying of thirst
G C G
We parked the car in some old schoolyard
G C D [C B A]
The windscreen caked in dirt
D D/C D/C
There was no water in the engine
D/B Am Am/B C D
Left no tread upon the tyres
G C G G/F# Em
The electrics were broke 'cause you went mad
Em/F# G C G
You ripped out all the wires
G C G
G C G ,
Across the road, a small cafe
G C C/B Am
In the state of Disrepair
G C G
You went for papers and a shave
G C D [C B A]
So I saved you a chair
D D/C D/B Em
I knew it wasn't the journey's end
Am Am/B C D
And that your dream was incomplete
G C G G/F# Em
But I just could not stand anymore
G C G
I was dead upon my feet
G C D [C B A]
I was dead upon my feet
D D/C D/C D/B
There's nothing there in the market square
Am Am/B C D
But the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier
G C G G/F# Em
I was dead upon my feet
Am C D
I sing the red rose and the briar
Am Am/B C D (G in intro)
I sing the red rose and the bri-ar
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
G C G
The waitress told me her life story
G C C/B Am
She'd always meant to up and go
G C G
She wiped her cup on her red pinafore
G C D [C B A]
As we waited for you to show
D D/C D/C D/B
And I told her just a little of you
Am Am/B C D
But left the picture incomplete
G C G G/F# Em
You still weren't there to paint it in person
Em/F# G C G
So I skipped out on the street
G C G
I skipped out on the street
G C G
The newsagent grinned, he said that you'd been in
G C Am
You bought a local paper and some shaves
G C G
And the washroom attendant said that you'd freshened up
G C D [C B A]
That you'd left but you hadn't payed
D D/C D/C D/B
And I couldn't figure out where you were
Am Am/B C D
So I went back to look near the car
G C G G/F# Em
There's nothing there where it should have been
Em/F# G C G
Just oil on dirt and tar
G G/B C D [C B A]
Just oil on dirt and tar
D D/C D/C D/B
There's nothing there in the market square
Am Am/B C D
But the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier
G C G G/F# Em
And there's nothing there where it should have been
Am C D
I sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D
I sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D [E F#] (G in intro)
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION}
G C G
I saw it parked way down the street
G G/B C C/B Am
In a garage off on the right
G C G
And a man said, "Get your hands off, son
G C D [C B A]
I just traded that wreck for a motorbike"
D D/C D/C D/B
There was nothing left of mine inside
Am Am/B C D
Not even the broken radio-o-o
G C G G/F# Em
And I couldn't figure out where that left me
G C G
So I went back to look for Rose
G , C G
The Cafe Rouge was a lunchtime rush
G C C/B Am
Of regulars yelling for food
G C G
And the service in there left a lot to be desired
G G/B C C/B D [C B A]
All the regulars were getting rude
D D/C D/C D/B
I saw an apron thrown over a chair
Am Am/B C D
A note said, "Hey John, we're gone, we're gone"
G C G G/F# Em
And I just smiled 'cause I loved you both
G C G
So I put the apron on
G C D [C B A]
I put the apron on
D D/C D/C D/B
Still nothing there in the market square
Am Am/B C D
But the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier
G C G G/F# Em
Well I just put the apron on
Am C D
I sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D
I sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D
I sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D [E F#] (G in intro)
I sing the red rose and the briar
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
G
In Scarlet town where I was born
C G
There was a fair maid dwellin'
G G/F# Em Em7
Oh, the colour of her hair was brown
Am
And her name......
C Am
And her name was......
C Am
And her name was......
C D [E F#] (G in intro)
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION} G
NOTES
0. According to Stephen M. Webb , "her name was..."
Barbara Allan as in the song "Barbara Allan" which takes place in
`Scarlet Town where I was born,' ends up with a rose and briar.
I don't have this song, so I didn't know this. I though it might have
been Helen from "I went to visit Helen by St. Helen's Park" (which is
in Hastings, where Wes used to live) from the song "Pound, Pound, Pound"
on the live & unaccompanied album "It Happened One Night".
1. Many thanks to Patrick Barnett for his
generosity and help in compiling this posting and Chris Inglesi
for pointing out the fact that it's "fair maid
dwellin'" rather than "family dwellin'" which I had at first.
2. All the chords are pretty much the basic fingerings but Wes uses a
modified Em [0 2 2 0 0 3] and Em7 is [0 2 0 0 0 0]. For those of you
unfamiliar with CRD notation, the chords with a slash such as C/B denote
chords played with a different bass-note to usual. The part before the
slash is the chord and the note after it is the bass note. So C/B is a
basic C chord [0 3 2 0 1 0] but with the bass-note changed to B becoming
[x 2 2 0 1 0]. In fact you needn't worry too much about the 2nd fretted
D string. What is important to note is that the bass-note is played on
the most convenient string, not always on the bass-E string. In this
song, the bass-note doesn't actually have to be the lowest note played -
I've used this notation to denote the bass notes in the bass-strum
style.
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