When The Master Calls The Roll chords by Rosanne Cash

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: Bb majorBb

Difficulty: Intermediate

INTRO: G+G

G+G              G+G
Girl with hair of flaming red
C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
Seeking perfect lover
G+G   C majorC        D MajorD    E minorEm
For to lie down on her feather bed
   C majorC      D MajorD
Soft secrets to uncover

G+G               G+G
Must be gentle, must be strong
   C majorC  G+G   D MajorD
With disposition sunny
G+G    C majorC        D MajorD   E minorEm
Just as faithful as the day is long
  C majorC        D MajorD
And careful with his money

  D MajorD      C majorC   G+G
And so the open letter read
  C majorC    G+G  D MajorD
The news boy did deliver
G+G      C majorC        D MajorD    E minorEm
Three months later plans were made to wed
   C majorC         D MajorD
Down by the King James river

D MajorD         G+G
Lo, the season may come
D MajorD         G+G
Lo, the season may go
   C majorC        G+G
What love has joined together
   G+G    G+G F#F#  E minorEm
Will forever be made whole
     C majorC        G+G
When the Master calls the roll

G+G  C majorC G+G D MajorD  G+G C majorC  D MajorD E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD

D MajorD       C majorC    G+G
Oh my darling will you leave?
C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
Take me to the altar
 G+G     C majorC           D MajorD   E minorEm
I don't have strength to watch you as you leave
    C majorC        D MajorD
But my love will never falter

G+G            G+G
Oh, my darling Mary Anne
  C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
The march to war is calling
G+G     C majorC        D MajorD    E minorEm
Somewhere far across these southern lands
  C majorC         D MajorD
Are bands of brothers falling

D MajorD          C majorC   E minorEm
My tender bride, the tides demand
    C majorC     G+G     D MajorD
That I leave you with your mother
G+G    C majorC       D MajorD   E minorEm
With my father's rifle in one hand
     C majorC       D MajorD
And your locket in the other

D MajorD         G+G
Lo, the season may come
D MajorD         G+G
Lo, the season may go
 C majorC           G+G
Beware the storm clouds gather
   G+G     G+G F#F#  E minorEm
Take heed, dear mortal soul
     C majorC        G+G
When the Master calls the roll

G+G  C majorC G+G D MajorD  G+G C majorC  D MajorD E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD

  G+G              G+G
But can this union be preserved?
  C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
The soldier boy was crying
G+G   C majorC      D MajorD    E minorEm
I will never travel back to her
  C majorC        D MajorD
But not for lack of trying

    G+G               G+G
It's a love of one true heart at last
   C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
That made the boy a hero
G+G   C majorC        D MajorD   E minorEm
But a rifle ball and a cannon blast
C majorC        D MajorD
Cut him down to zero

D MajorD      C majorC    E minorEm
Oh Virginia whence I came
   C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
I'll see you when I'm younger
G+G    C majorC        D MajorD   E minorEm
And I'll know you by your hills again
   C majorC         D MajorD
This time from six feet under

D MajorD         G+G
Lo, the season may come
D MajorD         G+G
Lo, the season may go
   C majorC      G+G
What man has torn asunder
   G+G    G+G F#F#  E minorEm
Will someday be made whole
     C majorC        G+G
When the Master calls the roll

C majorC            G+G
Though the storm clouds gather
    G+G   G+G F#F#  E minorEm
Let the Union be made whole
     C majorC        G+G
When the Master calls the roll

G+G  C majorC G+G D MajorD  G+G C majorC  D MajorD E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD