Saint Therese chords by The Stillwater Hobos

Intro: C, G, D, Em, C, G, D

C                        G
Darling mother would you guide my hand
   D                            Em
My love she's in America with a terry band
    C                       G
Her dark-flowing hair rolls all down her breast
        D                          Em
It's as soft as the night that she went and left
C             G
Sandy was the river that she walked
       D                       Em
It was out the door and it was off the dock,
    C                     G
The thunder ahead and the steamboat?s dreams
   D                    Em
Of lily-white smoke and fine rafting things.

C, G D, Em x2 (With harmonica)

    C                         G
She boarded that ship and she sent it well
D                      Em
Fast and lonesome as a kind farewell
  C                   G
I asked her grace for twelve little towns
       D                      Em
With a market in all and open fields around
    C                      G
She took the East, and she took the West
D                         Em
Elizabeth?s the girl that I love the best
   C                       G
My house was robbed when I shut the door
    D                    Em
And boarded it up with a rusted oar.
   C G D
An oar.


C                       G
Bring me a rose, St. Therese, St. Therese
          D                      Em
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese, St. Therese
C                          G
All the little flowers are covered and blessed
          D                      Em
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese.

C, G, D, Em x2 (With harmonica)

  C                          G
I saw her at the market just yesterday
  D                  Em
I said hello but she looked the other way
    C                        G
She wore a coat of black and two old shoes
       D                        Em
And my eyes were light with the devil?s dues
  C                      G
I gave her a whistle and three hundred cries
    D                       Em
And there I found a rose as white as lye
        C               G
You can wash with water every day
         D                                Em
But that dirt will stain your hide in the same old way.
     C G D
That way.

Chorus

C, G, D, Em x2 (with harmonica)

C, G, D, Em, C, G, D (with violin)

    C                      G
Now two devils danced on a barrel of lime
    D                                  Em
You know they're devils, mama, but you took a bad time
         C                   G
It was a slipped-up jig with iron feet
     D                       Em
That fled like a coward when lovers meet
    C                         G
But there in the garden I can see you fine
     D                        Em
Your hand full of roses smell better than wine
   C                            G
To scatter your flowers for the one you love
   D                              Em
As tender as the lightning in the sky above.
C G D Em     C G D
Above,       Above.


C                       G
Bring me a rose, St. Therese, St. Therese
          D                      Em
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese, St. Therese.
C                          G
All the little flowers are covered and blessed
          D                      Em
Would you bring me a rose St. Therese.
C G D Em    C G D
A Rose,   a rose.

    C                       G
Now Bring me a rose, St. Therese, St. Therese

Would you bring me a rose St. Therese, Therese.

All the little flowers are covered and blessed