E|------------------3----2--------------------------3---2--0h2--------------------|
B|------------------3----3--------------------------3---3------3------------------|
G|--------------0---0---2---------0------------0----0---2--------2----------------|
D|-------0---0h2----0--0----0-2-4---4-2-0---0h2-----0---0---------------0h2-------|
A|---0h2----3------2-----------------------3-------2----------------0h2-------3---|
E|--3-------------3-------------------------------3-------------------------------|
                                                And come in with the C chord for the verse

C                          G
Her people come from Nineveh
D                         Em
His people come from Rural Shade
C                   G
They met in the tent
          D
On the traveling Nazarene
C                            G
She took his big hand in hers
    D                                     Em
Led him from the tent to the piney woods
 D              Em
Both sixteen

C                               G
A few months later they got married
D                       Em
A few more months RoseofSharon got born
C           G                     D
While he was out cutting pulp
C                       G
A logging chain whipped
D                       Em
He never walked again
                            D   Em
It was an accidental thing

C                               G
So he drank when they had money
D                       Em
She worked as a serving girl
C               G                   D
In the rich folk’s houses in town
C                   G
RoseofSharon grew up
D                               Em
Cutting pictures out of magazines
                D               Em
Of houses big and clean

Interlude: C G D Em C G D


C                       G
RoseofSharon ran away
D                   Em
With a boy selling bibles
C                         G
Crossed the line in Shreveport
D
Turned 16
C                               G
Calls her mother from the payphone
D                 Em                    
A laundromat in Natchez
                                D
It’s not exactly what I dreamed

C               G
Palestine, Palestine
D          Em
Oh Palestine
                            D
We’ve got Satan on the run
                Em
Shouts the Nazarene