Last Night I Said "Good-bye" To Rose 1978 - NAMEDROPPER

capo @ 4 Am - 3/4 time (starts on A)

     Am     G       Am        G       Am

Last night I said Good bye to Rose but long ago I learned.
The things that last we seldom know and think a bridge is burned.
Bb Am Bb Am
Goodbye is just a passing thing. Hello lasts for so long.
Am G Am C G Am
That’s why as I lay down my pen I raise my voice in song.
C G Am F G Am
And roses grow and roses fade and roses sweetly bloom.
Am Bb Am G Am
So long I’ve lived in Rose’s shade, let roses shade my tomb.

I’ve tried my best to say it well. I’ve said so well so much.
But from your answers I can tell that I have failed to touch.
Or could it be I have not fail and it all goes to prove
That there are those that we can touch that we will never move?

And roses grow and roses fade and roses sweetly bloom.
So long I’ve lived in Rose’s shade, let roses shade my tomb.

Now, I’m not fooled by careless words that dangle like a rope.
And I’m not fooled by mocking birds and I’m not fooled by Hope.
Tonight I said goodbye to Rose but I learned long ago
Goodbye is just a passing thing. Forever is “Hello.”

(C) 2006 Royal T Music

Rosemarie Jean K was my Oregon muse. My 1st Rose Song was also what I thought of as my 1st country song: I SAW ROSE AGAIN TODAY. I have written an album’s worth of Rose songs. Willamette Rose, If God Had Longer Arms…(I willl add others as I think of them.) After years of being out of touch, searching for her on Facebook, I finally found her writing feature stories for a newspaper in the Napa Valley of California.

Any questions?

Here we are, 50 years later…point well made.