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Canadian Rose Tab

by Blues Traveler


This is a fairly simple piece, it just requires a lot of bar chords.  If you don't want
to use bar chords, you can also play it with a capo, but it doesn't sound as good.

Intro:     
           
Autumn air it carries me there
             
Less than an hour ago
            
Six hundred miles an hour
           
And still it feels so slow
          
I'm trying to get back to Burlington
                         
To a square in the center of town
                            
To a spot on a wooden table
                     
Where her feet didn't reach the ground
                    
And when she kisses me it tasted like cinnamon
                                     
And her skin smells of cidar and rose
                                
And when she looked at me we both got quiet
                                     
And my heart beats so hard we were in so close
                                    
Once for such a beautiful while that still makes me smile
                                                 
                        
And she called me her ugly American
                          
And I would call her my Canadian flower
                                
And I don't think that we'll ever get there again
                                     
We had such power
         
And she called me her ugly American
                          
And I'll remember my Canadian rose
                             
Especially when the fall comes to Burlington
                                 
We were in so close
             

Harmonica solo: Same chords as intro

I finally made it this town looks rearranged
                                 
I don't know these people anymore
                         
But in the best ways not much else has changed
                                      
From the way it was before
                 
And at least they still have this certain table
                                     
Where I once carved a particular name
                                 
I run my finger through the weathered carving
                                
And I almost can feel the same
                       
And my mouth it almost tastes just like cinnamon
                                       
As I ponder what my pilgrimage means
                              
And I try to figure out where Vancouver is from here
                                               
And I listen to the leaves
                   
If only for a beautiful while that still makes me smile
                                               

Harmonica solo: Same chords as intro

And she called me her ugly American
                          
And I would call her my Canadian flower
                                
And I don't think that we'll ever get there again
                                     
We had such power
         
And she called me her ugly American
                          
And I'll remember my Canadian rose
                             
Especially when the fall comes to Burlington
                                 
We were in so close
             

And every single hope and dream I could ever conjure up
                               
Passionately springs in me and all things are possible
                                          
Plausible and perfectly both of ours forever after and every day
                                                
At least it seemed that way
                 
Once for such a beautiful while that still makes me smile
                                                 


And she called me her ugly American
                          
And I would call her my Canadian flower
                                
And I don't think that we'll ever get there again
                                     
We had such power
         
And she called me her ugly American
                          
And I'll remember my Canadian rose
                             
Especially when the fall comes to Burlington
                                 
We were in so close
             




If you don't want to use bar chords, put a capo on the fourth fret and use G instead of
B, C instead of E, E minor instead of G#m, and D instead of F#.

-Bov