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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 GMidweek and we reached Scarlet townG C C/B Am
- I was almost dying of thirstG C GWe parked the car in some old schoolyard
- G C D [C B A]The windscreen caked in dirtD D/C D/C
- There was no water in the engineD/B Am Am/B C DLeft no tread upon the tyres
- G C G G/F# EmThe electrics were broke 'cause you went madEm/F# G C G
- You ripped out all the wiresG C G
- G C G ,Across the road, a small cafe
- G C C/B AmIn the state of DisrepairG C G
- You went for papers and a shaveG C D [C B A]So I saved you a chair
- D D/C D/B EmI knew it wasn't the journey's endAm Am/B C D
- And that your dream was incompleteG C G G/F# EmBut I just could not stand anymore
- G C GI was dead upon my feetG C D [C B A]
- I was dead upon my feet
- D D/C D/C D/BThere's nothing there in the market squareAm Am/B C D
- But the ghost of the Scarlet town-crierG C G G/F# EmI was dead upon my feet
- Am C DI sing the red rose and the briarAm Am/B C D (G in intro)
- I sing the red rose and the bri-ar
- {REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
- G C GThe waitress told me her life storyG C C/B Am
- She'd always meant to up and goG C GShe wiped her cup on her red pinafore
- G C D [C B A]As we waited for you to showD D/C D/C D/B
- And I told her just a little of youAm Am/B C DBut left the picture incomplete
- G C G G/F# EmYou still weren't there to paint it in personEm/F# G C G
- So I skipped out on the streetG C GI skipped out on the street
- G C G
- The newsagent grinned, he said that you'd been inG C AmYou bought a local paper and some shaves
- G C GAnd the washroom attendant said that you'd freshened upG C D [C B A]
- That you'd left but you hadn't payedD D/C D/C D/BAnd I couldn't figure out where you were
- Am Am/B C DSo I went back to look near the carG C G G/F# Em
- There's nothing there where it should have beenEm/F# G C GJust 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/BThere's nothing there in the market square
- Am Am/B C DBut the ghost of the Scarlet town-crierG C G G/F# Em
- And there's nothing there where it should have beenAm C DI sing the red rose and the briar
- Am C DI 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 streetG G/B C C/B AmIn a garage off on the right
- G C GAnd a man said, "Get your hands off, sonG C D [C B A]
- I just traded that wreck for a motorbike"D D/C D/C D/BThere was nothing left of mine inside
- Am Am/B C DNot even the broken radio-o-oG C G G/F# Em
- And I couldn't figure out where that left meG C GSo I went back to look for Rose
- G , C G
- The Cafe Rouge was a lunchtime rushG C C/B AmOf regulars yelling for food
- G C GAnd the service in there left a lot to be desiredG G/B C C/B D [C B A]
- All the regulars were getting rudeD D/C D/C D/BI saw an apron thrown over a chair
- Am Am/B C DA note said, "Hey John, we're gone, we're gone"G C G G/F# Em
- And I just smiled 'cause I loved you bothG C GSo I put the apron on
- G C D [C B A]I put the apron on
- D D/C D/C D/BStill nothing there in the market square
- Am Am/B C DBut the ghost of the Scarlet town-crierG C G G/F# Em
- Well I just put the apron onAm C DI sing the red rose and the briar
- Am C DI sing the red rose and the briarAm C D
- I sing the red rose and the briarAm 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 bornC GThere was a fair maid dwellin'
- G G/F# Em Em7Oh, the colour of her hair was brownAm
- And her name......C AmAnd her name was......
- C AmAnd her name was......
- C D [E F#] (G in intro){REPEAT INTRODUCTION} G
- NOTES0. According to Stephen M. Webb
- 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 isin 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 Barnettgenerosity and help in compiling this posting and Chris Inglesi
- dwellin'" rather than "family dwellin'" which I had at first.
- 2. All the chords are pretty much the basic fingerings but Wes uses amodified Em [0 2 2 0 0 3] and Em7 is [0 2 0 0 0 0]. For those of youunfamiliar 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 theslash is the chord and the note after it is the bass note. So C/B is abasic 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 frettedD string. What is important to note is that the bass-note is played onthe 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-strumstyle.
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The Red Rose And The Briar 1
HARDING JOHN WESLEY
