When The Master Calls The Roll chords by Rosanne Cash

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Bb

Difficulty: Intermediate

INTRO: G

G              G
Girl with hair of flaming red
C    G    D
Seeking perfect lover
G   C        D    Em
For to lie down on her feather bed
   C      D
Soft secrets to uncover

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

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

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

G  C G D  G C  D Em  C  D

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

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

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

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

G  C G D  G C  D Em  C  D

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

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

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

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

C            G
Though the storm clouds gather
    G   G F#  Em
Let the Union be made whole
     C        G
When the Master calls the roll

G  C G D  G C  D Em  C  D