Bon Jovi – Bed Of Roses
165 bpm 3/4 Strumming [Keep The Faith 1992]
Intro
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Verse 1
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Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old
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piano…
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Trying hard to capture the moment this morning
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I don't know…
Refrain
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'cause a bottle of vodka's still lodged in my head
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and some blonde gave me nightmares… Think that she's still
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in my-yyy bed…
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as I dream about movies they won't make of me
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when I'm dead…
Verse 2
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With an iron-clad fist… I wake up… and French kiss the
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morning…
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While some marching band keeps its own beat in my head
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while we're-eee talking…
Pre Chorus 1
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About all of the things that I long to believe about
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love… the truth… what you mean to me
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and the truth is…
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“Baby you're all that I-iii need…” I wanna
Chorus
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lay-yyy you down in a bed of
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roses-sss…
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For tonight-ttt I sleep on a bed of
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nails-sss… Oh-hhh… I wanna
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be… just as close as-sss…
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the Ho-ooo-ly Ghost is-sss…
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and lay you down-nnn-nnn on a bed of roses…
Fill
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Verse 3
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Well I'm so far away… Each step that I take's
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on my way home…
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A King's ransom in dimes I give each night to sing
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through this payphone…
Pre Chorus 2
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Still I run out of time or it's hard to get through
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‘till the bird on the wire… flies me back to you…
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I'll just close my eyes… and whisper… “Baby blind
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love is-sss true…” I wanna
Chorus
Dm Dm C A#
lay-yyy you down in a bed of
F F F F
roses-sss…
Dm Dm C A#
For tonight-ttt I sleep on a bed of
F F F F
nails-sss… Oh-hhh… I wanna
A# A# F F
be… just as close as-sss…
A# A# F F
the Ho-ooo-ly Ghost is-sss…
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and lay you down-nnn-nnn on a bed of roses…
Bridge 1
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Well this hotel bar hangover whiskey's gone dry…
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The barkeeper's wig's crooked and she's giving me the eye…
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I might have said yeah…
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but I laughed so hard I think I'd-ddd die… Uh-hhh yeah…
Solo
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Bridge 2 (Play Softly)
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Now as you close your eyes… know I'll be thinking
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about you… While my
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‘Mistress’ she calls me… to stand in her spotlight---
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---ttt again… Tonight…
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I won't be alone… but you know that don't mean I'm not
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lonely…
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I've got nothing to prove for it's you that I'd die to
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defend… I wanna
Outro
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lay-yyy you down in a bed of
F F F F
roses-sss…
Dm Dm C A#
For tonight-ttt I sleep on a bed of
F F F F
nails-sss… Oh-hhh… I wanna
A# A# F F
be… just as close as-sss…
A# A# F F
the Ho-ooo-ly Ghost is-sss…
Dm C A# A# F F C C
and lay you down-nnn… I
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lay-yyy you down in a bed of
F F F F
roses-sss…
Dm Dm C A#
For tonight-ttt I sleep on a bed of
F F F F
nails-sss… I wanna
A# A# F F
be… just as close as-sss…
A# A# F F
the Ho-ooo-ly Ghost is-sss…
* Dm * C * A#
and lay you down… a bed of roses…
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