Call Me Rose chords by Bruce Cockburn

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

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

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


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


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


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