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