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

James Michael Taylor

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.
Bb Am Bb Am
Or could it be I have not failed and it all goes to prove
Am G Am
That there are those that we can touch that we will never
Am
move?

     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.

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.
Bb Am Bb Am
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.