The Ballad of Rosalie           Cody Canada    Capo 2

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She was hanging in a pawn shop in Memphis, TN. 
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She was young & high strung her name was Rosalie,
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Her neck was long & slender, they said all the pearls are fine,
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I gave up my wedding ring so I could make her mine,
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Then she rode with me to Nashville, where we joined a 
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Country band, played a thousand different honky tonks
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And a thousand one night stands, Thru good times & 
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the bad times she gives me company, she made a nice 
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sweet home with me my little Rosalie,

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Rosalie, Rosalie, Rosalie, no one else got so close to me
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Although there has been others, there will never be, 
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Another one quite like my little Rosalie, No there will
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Never be another one like my Rosalie,

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Well the money wasn't good, it was few & far between,
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But then he'd start drinkin' & the fiddle split the scene
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Old Rosie stood besides me, thru the highs & the lows
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And I was playing in a band, paying thru the nose

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Well I left her where I found her, and I walked out with a gun
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I was half cocked & loaded I went looking for someone
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Then I came back in the springtime, I promised her I would
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But Rosalie long gone, this time it was for good,

Chorus         3rd verse
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Then late last night in the evening, I saw her on T V
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Another guitar man was a holding my pretty Rosalie,
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Her neck was long & slender, and her body curves so fine,
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I weep & now remember when sweet Rosalie was mine,

Chorus                 Solo