Rosie Jane chords by Malvina Reynolds

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G+G

Verse :
   G+G
This song is addressed to my sisters
   D MajorD
Any man who is present may listen
   A#A#                  D MajorD
Any priest, any public official, any physician
    D#D#               G minorGm
But it gives him no license to touch us


   G+G     D MajorD
We make the decision
G+G        C majorC          G+G
Me and Lydia
Rosie and Josie and Eve
  D#D#
We handle this matter ourselves
       G+G      FF      D MajorD
You'd better believe, or you better leave

Chorus:
     C majorC
Rosie Jane, are you pregnant again?
     G+G
Rosie Jane, you can hardly take care
     D MajorD        G+G
Of the four you had before
C majorC                G+G
What in heaven's name were you thinking of!
    D MajorD       G+G
Rosie Jane, was it love?


Verse :
  D MajorD          G+G
I had an extra shot on top of what I'd got
   C majorC             G+G
In a word I was drunk, so was Bill
       D MajorD
At least I think it was Bill
              G+G     D MajorD
And I'd forgot to take my pill
            D MajorD
I guess it was God's will

Chorus:
     C majorC
Rosie Jane, are you pregnant again?
     G+G
Rosie Jane, you can hardly take care
     D MajorD        G+G
Of the four you had before
C majorC                G+G
What in heaven's name were you thinking of!
    D MajorD       G+G
Rosie Jane, was it love?

Verse :
G+G
When that baby is a child
    D MajorD
It will suffer from neglect

Be picked upon and pecked
   G+G
And run over and wrecked
     C majorC               G+G
And its head will be crowned with the thorn
   D MajorD
But while it's inside her
  G+G
It must remain intact
   D MajorD               G+G
And it cannot be murdered till it's born

Chorus:
     C majorC
Rosie Jane, are you pregnant again?
     G+G
Rosie Jane, you can hardly take care
     D MajorD        G+G
Of the four you had before
C majorC                G+G
What in heaven's name were you thinking of!
    D MajorD       G+G
Rosie Jane, was it love?