Wild Rose Ukulele tab

	  Verse 
C 
When she was young they called her Wild Rose 
F 
The ladies in the town turned up their nose. 
C 
The boys all loved her heaven knows 
G 
She would never be tied down. 
C                                   F 
She said that she was getting out, the first chance she had she'd take it. 
C                                 G 
Don't know when, don't know how, but I know for sure that I'll make it. 
Am                                      F 
So on the day that she, she turned 18, she bought her ticket for the GreyHound bus. 
C                                            G 
He looked up from his cowboy hat and said, "Oh baby, what about us?". 
Am 
She said, "I've got to go, I've got to bloom 
F                                                      C 
but in this small town, babe, there ain't no room for this Wild Rose". 
G 
And he looked at her and said,  

Chorus 
         C 
"Well, baby, you can bloom no matter where you are, 
Am 
you don't have to live in the sky to be a star, you don't have to be a sun to shine. 
G *              C 
Baby, just be mine." 

Verse 
C                                                F 
She got on the bus, said, "I just can't stay" She didn't look back as they pulled away, 
         C                                           G 
but the hummin’ of the tires couldn't drown out the words she heard him say. 
Am                                                 F 
There beside the road, she saw a wild rose and it bloomed right there where God had planted it 
C                                       G  
on an old, rusty barbed wire fence and all of a sudden it all made sense when he said, 

Chorus 
C                                              Am 
"Baby, you can bloom no matter where you are, you don't have to live in the sky to be a star, you 
                                  G *             C 
don't have to be a sun to shine. Baby, just be mine."... 

 C  F  C  G  Am  C  G 

Verse 
          Am * 
Well the bus pulled away with an empty seat. 
           F *  
She made a call sayin, "Baby, come and get me." 
C                                                         G            
They drove all through the night and went home to see an Oklahoma sun rise. 
C                                 F 
Sittin on the porch late at night watchin’ their babies chasin’ fireflies. 
C                                                G            G  *
The little one looks up at the sky and says, "I wanna be a star". 

Slowly strum the Outro         
        C 
And they said, "Baby, you can bloom no matter where you are, 
                   G                       C      C *  
you don't have to live in the sky to be a star." 

Finish on one stum on the final C