Scarlet Begonias Chords by Grateful Dead

[Intro]
B B7 B B7
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[Verse]
E                               B     
As I was walkin' down Grosvenor Square
      E                                    B  
Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air
A              E         A                  E  
From the other direction she was calling my eye
A              E       
It could be an illusion
A              E                 B       
But I might as well try might as well try
        E                                     B    
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes
      E                                    B    
And I knew without asking she was into the blues
A                E       
She wore scarlet begonias
A               E    
Tucked into her curls
A            E   
I knew right away
        A              E           B     B7 B
She was not like other girls other girls ■  ■
       E                                         B    
In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough
        E                               B    
She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff
A              E  A          
As I picked up my matches and
                E   
Was closing the door
A            E     A      
I had one of those flashes
               E                 B     
I'd been there before been there before


[Chorus]
Gb                      
Well I ain't often right
Gb                       
But I've never been wrong
   B                           A           E   
It seldom turns out the way it does in the song
          Gb   
Once in a while
                  Ebm  
You get shown the light
                    A                        E    
In the strangest of places if you look at it right
Gb A B B7
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[Verse]
           E                            B            
Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves
   E                                  B    
Or scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues
A                   E     B   
And there's nothing wrong with
    A                  E  
The look that's in her eye
A                  E    B7 
I had to learn the hard way
A          E               B      
To let her pass by let her pass by


[Solo]
B7 B E B Gbm7 E B B7
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A E B7 A E A E B
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A E B B7
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[Chorus]
    E                          B           A
The wind in the willows played tea for two ■
    E                      B            A
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue ■
          E        B        
Strangers stopping strangers
A                   E   
Just to shake their hand
A           E       B
Everybody's playing ■
A               E        
In the Heart of Gold Band
         B        
Heart of Gold Band


[Solo]
B7 E B7 E B7 E B7 E
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B7 E B7 A B
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[End]