CEDAR ROSE (By Rhonda McDowell)

B G#m B
CHORUS: Cedar Rose…..growin’ on a fence line….
C#m F# B
Cedar Rose…..tuggin’ at this heart of mine…..
B G#m B
Cedar Rose……all along the highway…..
C#m F# B
Cedar Rose…….Cedar Rose……

B
Back in Tennessee where I was born
C#m G#m
as a little girl my heart you won…..
C#m
When you picked me up
F# B
and wiped away my tears.
B
We were young but you watched over me…
C#m G#m
when the others pushed me to my knees…
C#m F# B
You stayed with me and smoothed away my fears.

REPEAT CHORUS:

I used to dream of wearin’ pretty clothes, maybe something pink like a lovely rose…

But my heart would harden as time went it’s way…..

They called me Cedar Rose but they never knew
‘bout the one whittled out of wood by you

Even way back then I knew my heart would stay.

REPEAT CHORUS:

Mother never meant for me to fall,
but in my tattered dress I felt so small

Didn’t know how much my heart could ever weigh.

When we grew up you asked me to be you wife…..
Foolishly I chose another life…

but I’ll love you darling ‘til my dying day.

REPEAT CHORUS:

C#m F# G#m
TAG: Cedar Rose…….Cedar Rose…….