Intro: C/C (pluck ¼-note chords)
C G/B
Some say love, it is a river
F/A G/B C
That drowns the tender reed
C/G C G/B
Some say love, it is a razor
F/A G/B C
That leaves your soul to bleed
Em/B Am
Some say love it is a hunger
F/G G
An endless aching need
C G/B
I say love it is a flower
F/A G C/G
And You its only seed
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bette_midler/rose_crd_ver_5.html ]
(timpani) C G/B
It's the heart afraid of breaking
F/A G/B C
That never learns to dance
(timpani)C/G C G/B
It's the dream afraid of waking
F/A G/B C
That never takes a chance
(ooh’s) Em/B Am
It's the one, who won't be taken
F/G G
Who cannot seem to give
(quietly) C G/B
And the soul afraid of dying
F/A G C/G
That never learns to live
(rock it) C G/B
When the night has been too lonely
F/A G/B C
And the road has been too long
C/G C G/B
And you think that love is only
F/A G/B C
For the lucky and the strong
(quiet) Em/B Am
Just remember in the winter
(rock it) F/G G-Gsus
Far beneath the bitter snow
(quiet) C G/B
Lies the seed that with the sun's love,
(rock it) F/A G/B C
In the spring becomes the rose
notes:
When bass note is shown, ie x/B, barre at that fret on the E-string.
When it isn't shown, it's the same as the chord. Still barre there.
So, the song is mostly at C barred at the 8th fret.
