Kaitlin Butts - Wild Rose

      Song: Wild Rose
Artist: Kaitlin Butts
Album: Same Hell, Different Devil

[Intro]
C Am C G

C                                                        
When she was young they called her Wild Rose
F
The ladies in the town turned up their nose.
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The boys all loved her heaven knows
G
She would never be tied down.
C                                   F            
She said that she was getting out, the first chance she had she'd take it.
C                                 G      
Don't know when, don't know how, but I know for sure that I'll make it.
Am                                      F
So on the day that she, she turned 18, she bought her ticket for the GreyHound bus.
C                                            G
He looked up from his cowboy hat and said, "Oh baby, what about us?".
Am       
She said, "I've got to go, I've got to bloom 
F                                                      C                         
but in this small town, babe, there ain't no room for this Wild Rose".
G                                      C
And he looked at her and said, "Well, baby, you can bloom no matter where you are, 
Am                                                                                               
you don't have to live in the sky to be a star, you don't have to be a sun to shine.
G (hold)          C
Baby, just be mine." 
C                                                F
She got on the bus, said, "I just can't stay" / She didn't look back as they pulled away, 
         C                                           G
but the hummin? of the tires couldn't drown out the words she heard him say.
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There beside the road, she saw a wild rose and it bloomed right there where God had planted it 
C                                       G (hold)    
on an old, rusty barbed wire fence and all of a sudden it all made sense when he said, 
C                                              Am
"Baby, you can bloom no matter where you are, you don't have to live in the sky to be a star, you 
                                  G (hold)         C
don't have to be a sun to shine. Baby, just be mine."...
 
[Instrumental]
C F C G Am C G

Am (hold)
Well the bus pulled away with an empty seat.
           F (hold)
She made a call sayin, "Baby, come and get me." 
C                                                         G      
They drove all through the night and went home to see an Oklahoma sun rise.
C                                 F      
Sittin on the porch late at night watchin? their babies chasin? fireflies.
C                                                G (slow)
The little one looks up at the sky and says, "I wanna be a star".
                C
And they said, "Baby, you can bloom no matter where you are, 
                   G                       C (strum once)
you don't have to live in the sky to be a star."