Tom: C
C F
1. Goodbye England's Rose, may you ever grow in our hearts,
C F
you were the grace that placed itself where lives were torn apart.
C F
You called out to our country, and you whispered to those in pain,
C F
now you belong to heaven and the stars spell out your name
G C F
And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind
C G
Never fading with the sunset when the rain set in
F Am
And your footsteps will always fall here along England's greenest hills -
C G F C - G
Your candle burned out long before === your legend ever will
C F
2. Loveliness we've lost, those empty days without your smile,
C F
this torch we'll always carry for a nation's golden child.
C F
And even though we try, === the truth brings us to tears,
C F
all our words cannot express the joy you brought us through the years.
+ REFR.
C F
3. Goodbye England's Rose, may you ever grow in our hearts,
C F
you were the grace that placed itself where lives were torn apart.
C F
Goodbye England's Rose, from a country lost without your soul,
C F
who'll miss the wings of your compassion more than you will ever know
+ REFR.
F Am
+ And your footsteps will always fall here along England's greenest hills -
F G F - C
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever will