Isabel and the King
by Joe Purdy
From the album Canyon Joe


Tabbed by Kevin (liquoricewhip@hotmail.com)
Check out the Unofficial Joe Purdy Transcription site at www.kevin.host-ed.net/joepurdy

Standard tuning

A5:
x022xx
D:
xx0232
G:
320003
C:
x32010

Hammer-on on the C chords.

In the chorus the run leading up to the C chord goes (E3 A0 A2)

      A5             D             G   C   G
As he laid Spanish roses in her hair
         A5           D                      G   C   G
And then covered the crown of thorns she wears
          C             A5           D
And the blood from her lips as she sings
       C            A5       D
Do it all for the glory of thee

                      C           G
And they carried her down, down, down
              C         G
Down in the cold, cold ground
                  C       G
By the river she used to pray
             C        G                D   C        G
Forever now she will wait     for the king     to come


And the boys who would crave her perfect skin

She burned herself, she thought it would please

And the iron chain spiked around her waist

And the poison she used to hide her face


(chorus)



And she made a bed of broken glass and stone

Where she slept at night to prove her faith was strong

And when her broken body finally gave

There grew Spanish roses by her grave


(chorus)