Call Me Rose chords by Bruce Cockburn

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

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

Key: C majorC

Verse 1:
  FF        G+G          C majorC
My name was Richard Nixon only now I'm a girl
  FF        G+G          C majorC
You wouldn't know it but I used to be the king of the world
  FF        G+G          C majorC
Compared to last time I look like I've hit the skids
FF               G+G
Living in the projects with my two little kids
FF              C majorC
It's not what I would have chosen
G+G            C majorC
Now you have to call me Rose

Verse 2:
 FF        G+G          C majorC
I was the boss of bosses the last time around
 FF     G+G           C majorC
I lived by cunning and ambition unbound
 FF        G+G          C majorC
The suckers said they'd stand behind me right or wrong
  FF                   G+G
As if they thought that hubris was the mark of the strong
 FF        C majorC
I was an arrogant man
 FF        C majorC
But now I've got it in hand
 FF           C majorC
It’s not what I would have chosen
 G+G           C majorC
Now you have to call me Rose


Chorus:
FF    C majorC
Call me Rose
FF    C majorC
Call me Rose
FF             C majorC
It’s not what I would have chosen
G+G            C majorC
Now you have to call me Rose


Verse 3:
FF           G+G         C majorC
My name was Richard Nixon only now I'm a girl
FF           G+G         C majorC
You wouldn't know it but I used to be the king of the world
FF           G+G         C majorC
I'm back here learning what it is to be poor
FF             C majorC      G+G
To have no power but the strength to endure


Chorus:
FF          C majorC
I'll perform my penance well
FF          C majorC
Maybe the memoir will sell
FF             C majorC
It's not what I would have chosen
G+G            C majorC
Now you have to call me Rose
 G+G            C majorC
Now you have to call me Rose