Rosa And Reseda chords by Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties

Intro:

Bm G Bm G


Verse 1:

            D    Bm              G      A
We used to smoke on the fire escape now we just smoke in the living room

    D       Bm             G
In the plastic patio chairs that the last tenant left

 A    D       Bm         G
I came to Reseda for the cheap rent and the distant listless gloom

 A     D          Bm
I answered a Craigslist ad for a roommate, Rosa was it

G A


Chorus:

G            D    Bm A
She waits tables on the weekdays

G           D  Bm A
Picks up any shift she can

 G          D   A     Bm
I paint houses that I can't afford to live in

A    G         A        Bm
Scraping by with what we've got to pay the rent

G Bm G


Verse 2:

            D   Bm              G
We used to smoke on the fire escape now we just smoke in the living room

   A      D            Bm          G   A
And I play her the songs that I wrote last year when things got dim

    D            Bm
And her boyfriend's a real great guy

           G
He works down at the Jiffy Lube

A       D
They teach me Spanish at night

  Bm             G
We eat what she takes from her shift


G  F#/G  G  F#/G


Bridge:

A             G         A
They both think that I can be something if I try

         G      A
They come out to all the open mics

       G         Bm       A    G
He's looking around to help me find a van that I could buy

Gm

Chorus:

G            D    Bm A
She waits tables on the weekdays

G           D  Bm A
Picks up any shift she can

 G          D   A     Bm
I paint houses that I can't afford to live in

A    G         A        Bm
Scraping by with what we've got to pay the rent



Bridge:

Bm                 G       F#/G  G  F#/G
And Mom wants to know how sunny California is

Bm                        G    F#/G  G  F#/G
Says the Island's been cold, it sounds like she's over it

Bm                          G       F#/G  G  F#/G
Tells me Catherine's moving home, her husband's been pretty sick

Bm                     G        F#/G  G  F#/G
There's a Doctor they hope has better luck diagnosing him

G F#/G  G

Outro:

            D   Bm              G      A
We used to smoke on the fire escape now we just smoke in the living room

     D              Bm        G
Well the lease is up and we'll never see that deposit again

    D         Bm
Rosa's moving in with her boyfriend

       G
I'm going to drive off somewhere new

     D          Bm
When I so desperately needed a friend

      G
Rosa was a friend