Tuning: GGDGBD
Capo: 3
G: 000000
C/G: 002010
D: XX0230
G2: XX5005
G/F#: XX4004
Em: XX2002
A: X22220
Vers/intro pattern:
G C/G
-----------------0-------------------------0-------------------0--
----0------0------------0-------0-----0h1--------1-------1--------
----0---------0---------0----------0---0---------0----------0-----
----0-------------------0-------------0h2--------2----------------
----0-------------------0--------------0---------0----------------
-0-----0-------------0-----0------------------0-----0-------------
G C/G G D
Mary, you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes, covered in rain
D G C/G G D
You're covered in babies, covered in slashes, you're covered in wilderness, covered in stains
D G C/G G D
You cast aside the sheets, you cast aside the shroud of another man who served the world proud
D G C/G G G
You greet another son and you lose another one on some sunny day, and always you stay, Mary
This is the little walk-down from G to Em:
G G2 G/F# Em
-0-0-0--5-5-5-5--4-4-4-4--2-2-2--
-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
-0-0-0--5-5-5-5--4-4-4-4--2-2-2--
-0-0-0---------------------------
-0-0-0---------------------------
Jesus said,
C/G G G2 G/F# Em
"Mother, I couldn't stay another day longer"
Em C/G G G2 G/F# Em
Flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face
Em C/G G
While the angels were singing his praises in a blaze of glory
G A C/G
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place
Mary, she moves behind me, she leaves her fingerprints everywhere
Everytime the snow drifts, every way the sand shifts, even when the night lifts
she's always there
Jesus said, "Mother, I couldn't stay another day longer"
Flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels were singing his praises in a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place
Oh, Mary, you're covered in roses, you're covered in ruin, you're covered in secrets
Your covered in treetops, covered in birds who can sing a million songs without any words
You cast aside the sheet, you cast aside the shroud of another man who served the world proud
You greet another son, and you lose another one on some sunny day, and always you stay, Mary