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Give Me The Roses While I Live by The Carter Family - Guitar Chords

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            [Intro chords]

G / / | G / / |

G / / | G / / | G / / | G / / | D7 / / | D7 / / | G / / | G/ / |

[Intro melody - and play before each verse. Intro melody starts on bar 3.]

e |-------|--------|------|-----|-------|------|----|
B |-0-----|--------|------|-0---|---0-1-|-0----|----|
G |---2-0-|--------|-0--2-|-----|-2-----|----2-|-0--|
D |-------|-0--2h4-|------|-----|-------|---0--|----|
A |-------|--------|------|-----|-------|------|----|
E |-------|--------|------|-----|-------|------|----|

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[Verse 1]
G
Wonderful things of folks are said
D7                     G
When they have passed away

Roses adorn their narrow bed
D7                G
Over the sleeping clay


[Chorus]
C                 G
Give me the roses while I live
                   D7
Trying to cheer me on
G
Useless are flowers that you give
D7                 G
After the soul has gone


[Verse 2]
G
Let us not wait to do good deeds
D7                     G
Till they have passed away

Now is the time to sow good seeds
D7                     G
While here on earth we stay


[Chorus]
C                 G
Give me the roses while I live
                   D7
Trying to cheer me on
G
Useless are flowers that you give
D7                 G
After the soul has gone


[Verse 3]
     G
Kind words are useless when folks lie
D7
Cold in a narrow bed
      G
Don't wait till death to speak kind words
D7                      G
Now should the words be said


[Chorus]
C                 G
Give me the roses while I live
                   D7
Trying to cheer me on
G
Useless are flowers that you give
D7                 G
After the soul has gone


[Verse 4]
G
Give me the roses while I live
      D7           G
Don’t wait until I die
   G
To spread the roses o’er my grave
   D7                 G
To see as you pass it by


[Chorus]
C                 G
Give me the roses while I live
                   D7
Trying to cheer me on
G
Useless are flowers that you give
D7                 G
After the soul has gone 
        

We also have 40 songs by The Carter Family

• Anchored In Love
• Beautiful Isle Oer The Sea
• Black Jack David
• Can The Circle Be Unbroken
• Church In The Wildwood
• Darling Little Joe
• Engine One-Forty-Three
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room
• Give Me The Roses While I Live
• Gold Watch And Chain
• Hello Central Give Me Heaven
• Homestead On The Farm
• I Cant Feel At Home
• I Never Will Marry
• Im Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
• Jimmie Brown The Newsboy
• John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
• Keep On The Sunny Side
• Little Darling Pal Of Mine
• Lonesome For You
• Lulu Walls
• My Clinch Mountain Home
• My Dixie Darling
• My Texas Girl
• On The Sea Of Galilee
• Single Girl Married Girl
• The Foggy Mountain Top
• The Happiest Days Of All
• The Mountains Of Tennessee
• The Western Hobo
• Wabash Cannonball
• When Im Gone
• When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
• When The Worlds On Fire
• Where Well Never Grow Old
• Why Do You Cry Little Darling
• Wildwood Flower
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• Will You Miss Me When Im Gone
• Worried Man Blues

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