G C x 2
G D Em C
G D C D
Am / C G Am x 4 / G Am x 2 / G Em G Am
D Bm G A / D Bm A G / chorus A G x 2 / D Bm A G
Bridge A Bm x 3 / D Bm A G
She comes from Violet Town
Born in Orchid Street
Right from Cowslip over Tulip
Where she played on Honeysuckle Creek
Well she ain’t no wilting flower
She as tough as ironbark
She moved down to the city smoke
Where she learned to love the dark
Chorus C D x 2 / G C D C / G D C D
She said farewell to her family
She said farewell to all her friends
She caught the bus to Melbourne but with flowers still in her head
Well she tried her hand at nursing
But it didn’t light a spark
She fell in with a dealer
And it felt like a brand new start
He turned her head with drugs and money
Until she found herself crying in the dark
She left him lying in the bed
With her name in his tatooed heart
She found a room and filled it with orchids
She had tulips all around her bed
They filled her dreams with Violet Town and the creek around the bend
Bridge
Em D x 2
Em C
D C
And she walked the streets of Melbourne
So cold and hard and grey
And the flowers in her room at night
Were beacons on her way
Almost broke and almost heading home
Just once more she thought she’d try her luck
Now she runs the bar in the Worker’s Arms
Takes no lip from the circling sharks
And the regulars call her Violet
Though that’s never been her name
She reminds them of some life they had
in another time and place
She fills the bar with flowers
She turns the TV down
She let’s them have a round for free and talks of Violet Town
She flogs the bar at pool and darts
She lives in Orchid Street, where it crosses Honeysuckle Creek
She turns left at Tulip into Rose turns right at Cowslip to the nursing home
Oh she’s the sweetest flower of them all
And everybody knows her name they ask who won the netball game?
They ask about her mum and dad and if she’s heard about her brother in Japan
At 5.00 she heads back home, stops off at the bottle-o
She comes from Violet Toshe heads wn On the banks of Honeysuckle Creek
Where the flowers all bloom in the names of the streets
She’s the most delicate lily she’s the sweetest rose
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