Contemplation Rose

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[Intro]
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[Verse]

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Puerto Rican Nursery Rhymes
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Angels in the snow and thyme
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And I'm keeping my mind on that rose
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In a church in Spanish Harlem
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Got Watchtowers and Awakes for free
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In the laundromats for you and me
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But you can't take me down that way
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As I'm not sinking

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And if we go down one time
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Next time's not gonna be the last
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 time
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And I'm contemplating that rose
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In a church in Spanish Harlem
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[Interlude]
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Didn't I bring you precious gifts
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Come to kiss you on the lips
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Did not even appear
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To beg your pardon

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To lay out in the morning sun
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Feel the cool breeze and the one
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Right there in, in my garden
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Puerto Rican Nursery Rhymes
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And angels, and angels, and the 
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snow and thyme
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But I'm keeping my mind on that rose
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In a church in Spanish Harlem
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Am                            G
Yeah, and if we go, if we go down 
one time
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The next time will not be the 
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last time, and I'm
Am                   G
Keeping my mind on that, 
contemplating that rose
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Up in a church in Spanish Harlem
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Am             G
And if we go down one time, you know
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The next time it won't be the 
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last time
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And I'm contemplating that rose
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In a church in Spanish Harlem
 C    C C/B Am


Am                           G
And I'm contemplating that rose
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In a church in Spanish Harlem
 C    C C/B Am

Am                           G
And I'm contemplating, and I'm 
contemplating that rose
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In a church in Spanish Harlem
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Am                           G
And I'm contemplating that rose
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In a church in Spanish Harlem
 C    C C/B Am

Am                           G
And I'm contemplating that rose
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In a church, in a church in Spanish
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 Harlem