Delicacy Of A Rose
Roger Creager, Clay Baker

Intro  G D C G C G D C D  
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She gave it away on good faith when she was 15 years old.
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He was 16 and did not appreciate the delicacy of a rose.
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A long string of lovers helped blur the line between true love and lust.     
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A teenage girl who’s been sold short, who’s she got left to trust?


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The cycle of sin she found herself in once the word got out
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It broke her heart to realize what they were all about.
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After she gave all she had they didn’t treat her so well.
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Each time she went their way, another petal fell.


CHORUS
D                               C                   G  Walk Down
Sometimes life leads you down a road that you don’t choose.
Em                 C                 G
You try so hard to win but you still loose.
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Bottle it all up inside where nothing ever grows.
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She built a ten foot wall around what’s left of a rose.


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I have always been there when she’s cried a million tears.
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But I know why she can’t see that I’ve loved her for years.  
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In the fertile soil of my hands I know real love could bloom.
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I would give up everything to bathe in her perfume.


CHORUS
D                               C                   G  Walk Down
Sometimes life leads you down a road that you don’t choose.
Em                 C                 G
You try so hard to win but you still loose.
D                             C            G
Bottle it all up inside where nothing ever grows.
C                    G                  D         G
She built a ten foot wall around what’s left of a rose.

BRIDGE 
Em                        D
She’s been loved a time or two 
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but I don’t think she could tell.
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She’s always been called easy,
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But friend she’s hard as hell.

CHORUS
D                               C                   G  Walk Down
Sometimes life leads you down a road that you don’t choose.
Em                 C           G
You try so hard to win but you loose.
D                             C            G
Bottle it all up inside where nothing ever grows.
C                    G                  D         G
She built a ten foot wall around what’s left of a rose.
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She built a ten foot wall around what’s left of a rose.
                                      (hold – retard)