She Grows Her Roses

C C F On the streets of New York City where the asphalt greets the sun F C Morning slips in sideways like a cheetah on the run C F She’s out there on the sidewalk kneeling at her toil G F C Pulling weeds for Jesus with her knuckles in the soil C F She is no St. Theresa. She is no paragon. F C Fingernails are dirty. Her old blue jeans are worn. C F She doesn’t talk to strangers she hardly knows you’re there. G She doesn’t want your money she doesn’t want your prayers because Am7 G/B C Am7 G/B C This is God's dominion this is peace on earth Am7 G/B C F G This is what she's put here for this is what she's worth F G C F G Am All the other things that matter have slowly slipped away F C F C Now she grows her roses she grows her roses Dm Em F C C C and she grows her roses all day. C F She remembers a young woman with hair as fine as gold F C She remembers all her lovers and she remembers growing old C F She remembers meeting Jesus she can’t recall the day G She gave him all her seeds of darkness he buried them away because Am7 G/B C Am7 G/B C This is God's dominion this is peace on earth Am7 G/B C F G This is what she's put here for this is what she's worth F G C F G Am All the other things that matter have slowly slipped away F C F C Now she grows her roses she grows her roses Dm Em F C and she grows her roses all day. C C C C F F F F C C C C C C F F G G G G Am7 G/B C F Now she coaxes hope from concrete and she coaxes right from wrong F C She makes the Spanish ladies break into their Spanish song C F Well at night they smell her roses in the streetlamp’s yellow sun G and they dream of summer dresses in the streets of old San Juan because Am7 G/B C Am7 G/B C This is God's dominion this is peace on earth Am7 G/B C F G This is what she's put here for this is what she's worth F G C F G Am All the other things that matter have slowly slipped away F C F C Now she grows her roses she grows her roses Dm Em F C and she grows her roses all day. Outo F C F C Yeah she grows her roses she grows her roses Dm Em F C and she grows her roses all day.