Statler Brothers - Bed Of Roses Chords

Bed Of Roses
Statler Brothers

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she was called the scarlet woman by the people
                                             E
Who would go to Church, but left me in the street
          A                    D
With no Parents of my own,  I never had a home
        B7                              E
And a eighteen year old boy has got to eat

A                D                A
She found me outside one Sunday morning
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Begging money from someone I didn''''t know
     A            D             A
She took me in a wipe away my childhood
                 E                 A    D-A-E
A woman of the streets, that lady rose

      A       D               A 
This bed of rose''''s that I lay on, 
                            E
Where I was taught to be a man
      A      D                 A
This bed of rose''''s where Im livin, 
                      E            A  D-A-E-A 
Is the only kind of life I understand

A                    D          A
She was a handsome woman just thirty-five, 
                                   E
Who was spoken to in town by very few
     A                        D 
She managed a late evening business, 
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Like most of the town wish they could do.

         A              D             A
And I learned all the things, that a man should know
                                  E
          A           D                   A
But she died knowing that I really loved her. 
                   E               A    D-A-E

     A       D                A 
This bed of rose''''s that I lay on, 
                            E
Where I was taught to be a man
      A      D                 A
This bed of rose''''s where Im livin, 
                     E           A  
Is the only kind of life I understand

     A       D                A
This bed of rose''''s that I lay on, 
                           E
Where I was taught to be a man
      A      D                 A
This bed of rose''''s where Im livin, 
                      E            A  D-A-E-A 
Is the only kind of life I understand