The Thorn Upon The Rose

          Julie Matthews
 
 
  Julie recorded this on Such is Life and with Chris While on the 
 live Stages. It was a big hit for Mary Black and is on her Babes
 in the Wood albumn.
  
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 Its taste was sweet, like summer wine
                                C
 The heart that beats in double time
                      G                 G/B
 So you waltzed right in, he bowled you over
                                     Am7             D
 And you're still reeling from the feeling when he's gone
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 The door is closed, the lock is turned
     C        G/B             Am7              D
 And all the photographs and letters have been burned
 
 
 [chorus]
    G        Am7       G/B     D
 So when you pick the handsome flower
 G        Em      Am7            D
 Don't forget the thorn upon the rose
     G      Am7          G/B            C
 Its cut is deep and the scar lasts for ever
 G          G/B       Am7       G
 It follows love whereever love goes
 
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 Just how we fall it's hard to know
                        C
 What we feel we seldom show
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 So we show the parts we feel are best
                                      Am7          D
 And skirt around the edges trying to cover up the rest
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 You think you know him, he thinks the same
      C             G/B             Am7            D
 When underneath it all it's just a crazy guessing game
 
 
 [chorus]
    G        Am7       G/B     D
 So when you pick the handsome flower
 G        Em      Am7            D
 Don't forget the thorn upon the rose
     G      Am7          G/B            C
 Its cut is deep and the scar lasts for ever
 G          G/B       Am7       G
 It follows love whereever love goes
 
 
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 Win or lose it's just the same
                          C
 Tears of joy or tears of pain
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 They're hand in hand, they come as one
                                     Am7             D
 You never meet the moon without the promise of the sun
                           G       G/B
 For all the bruises, for all the blows
      C              G/B           Am7           D
 I'd rather feel the thorn that to never see the rose
 
  [chorus]
    G        Am7       G/B     D
 So when you pick the handsome flower
 G        Em      Am7            D
 Don't forget the thorn upon the rose
     G      Am7          G/B            C
 Its cut is deep and the scar lasts for ever
 G          G/B       Am7       G
 It follows love whereever love goes