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Coming Up Roses

Elliott Smith

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Coming Up Roses
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 F#: 244322        D: XX0232
 A: X02220         B: 224442
 E: 022100         Db: XX4121
 Ebm: 111342       E*: 476454

Inrto:   F#        A      E       Ebm             D
         A    B    D      A       B               D         

 Vs.1
 A                      B
  I'm a junkyard full of false starts
 D                         A
  And I don't need your permission 
     B        D              A          B
  To bury my love under this bare light bulb

 Br.1
 D    A         B      D
  The moon is a sickle cell
 A       B           Db
  It'll kill you in time
       D           A       B           D
  Your cold white brother riding your blood
 Db
  Like spun glass in sore eyes

 Chorus
 F#         A         E     Ebm                    D
  While the moon does its division you're buried below
                       A  B  D    A         B
  And you're coming up roses everywhere you go
      D  E*
  Red roses follow

          SOLO  (over verse chords)

 Br.2
  The things that you tell yourself
  They'll kill you in time
  Your cold white brother alive in your blood
  Spinning in the night sky
 
           CHORUS  (don't sing "follow" in the last line)

 Chorus2
  So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows
  It's coming up roses everywhere you go
  Red roses

             End on Chorus chords

 Solo:
  |----------------|          |------------------|---------------|
  |-7p5------------|          |-7-5-7-5----------|---------------|
  |-----4b---------|Play 2x's |----------6---6p4-|-4-------------|
  |--------7----4--|          |------------------|----7--4--6--7-|
  |----------------|          |------------------|---------------|
  |----------------|          |------------------|---------------|

  |--------------|-----------------------|
  |--------------|-----------------------|
  |--------6-----|--9-8----9p8-6---4---7-|
  |-7-6-7--------|-----------------------|
  |--------------|-----------------------|
  |--------------|-----------------------|

 Intro: There's a little riff over the F# chord in the intro

  |------------|
  |------------|
  |------------|   Play twice
  |-4--3--1----|
  |----------4-|
  |------------|

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Coming Up Roses

Elliott Smith