Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

And come in with the C chord for the verse

Her people come from Nineveh

His people come from Rural Shade

They met in the tent

 On the traveling Nazarene

She took his big hand in hers

 Led him from the tent to the piney woods

 Both sixteen

A few months later they got married

A few more months RoseofSharon got born

While he was out cutting pulp

A logging chain whipped

He never walked again

 It was an accidental thing

So he drank when they had money

She worked as a serving girl

In the rich folk’s houses in town

RoseofSharon grew up

Cutting pictures out of magazines

 Of houses big and clean

Interlude

RoseofSharon ran away
D Em

With a boy selling bibles

Crossed the line in Shreveport

Turned 16

Calls her mother from the payphone

A laundromat in Natchez

 It’s not exactly what I dreamed

Palestine, Palestine

Oh Palestine

 We’ve got Satan on the run

 Shouts the Nazarene