ROSEMARY S SISTER - Simon Nicol
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Simon Nicol s cover of Rosemary s Sister from the album Before Your Time..
The timings of the chord changes in the intro are quite complicated, so I ve
put numbers above chords, which shows how many beats each chord has in the bar.
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KEY: E
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Intro
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2 2 2 2 8
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2 2 2 2 2 2 4
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4 4 8
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4 4 4 4
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4 4
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4 2 2 4 4
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Mother of disaster and sister of our fate
Do you count the tragedies we see?
Father of confusion and brother of debate
Do you recall the sister of Rosemary?
The doodlebugs were flying and the blitz was at its high
Rosemary lay sleeping with her sister only five
And no one heard the one that hit, the one that blew the lid
Rosemary came out crying but her sister never did
And you fly high, and your dreams are all in vain
One moment you are singing and the next your crying in pain
But high above the heavens on a host of angels wings
Rosemary s sister will be da - ncing
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Her mother cried all that year as many others did
She d pull through for a moment, now and then
And the people down in Bethnel Street in the rubble and the stones
Swept up the street and started all again
When tyranny is biting you do your best to try
To stifle all your heartache till it s safe again to cry
And when at last the darkness clears and the sun comes shining through
You dust it off and start it all anew
And you fly high, and your dreams are all in vain
One moment you are singing and the next your crying in pain
But high above the heavens on a host of angels wings
Rosemary s sister will be da - ncing
Break
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2 2 2 2 8
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2 2 2 2 2 2 4
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4 4 8
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4 4 4 4
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4 4
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There s a teacher in the classroom, there s a mother in the hall
The children sit and wait for the bell for home
And Rosemary is waiting, she has a child now of her own
And she s waiting to collect and take her home
But sometimes in the silence, in the firelight where she sits
Her mind goes back to Bethnel Street, to the darkness and the blitz
And she knows if there s another one, then the end will be complete,
Well, I wonder what they d say in the Bethnel Street
And you fly high, and your dreams are all in vain
One moment you are singing and the next your crying in pain
But high above the heavens on a host of angels wings
Rosemary s sister will be da - ncing
2 2 2 2 4 4 End
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