G      C                           G
Just a little box all covered with blossoms white as snow
C               G                     A7             D
Chinese red and made of brass that he gave her long ago
         G                               C
Like the red dirt Oklahoma hills and the springtime flowering trees
         G                                    D            G
That she kept with all the love they shared inside her memories


    D                               C                 G
She got it from her captain when he sailed around the horn
C                   G              D
Bringing gifts from China to their Oklahoma home
           G                                           C
There were fancy silks and carved wood chests from the places he had gone
              G                            D                 G
She kept them all until she died, but this was her favourite one


CHORUS:
       C                           G
Just a little box all covered with blossoms white as snow
C               G                     A7             D
Chinese red and made of brass that he gave her long ago
         G                               C
Like the red dirt Oklahoma hills and the springtime flowering trees
         G                                    D            G     D    G
That she kept with all the love they shared inside her memories


        D                                  C               G
And she kept it on her dresser filled with gold and silver rings
C            G         D
Necklaces of turquoise beads and other things
   G                                         C
It filled her heart with the mystery and the magic of the day
        G                                  D            G
When he gave it to her for her own, in his quiet loving way


    D                                    C                  G
Ten years they spent together, he'd come home and then he'd leave
C                 G      D
One day while she waited, he disappeared at sea
G                                          C
No one knew how she called his name to the silent rocks and stones
             G                                    D               G
Or how she'd sit and hold that little box, so she would not feel alone


CHORUS:
       C                           G
Just a little box all covered with blossoms white as snow
C               G                     A7             D
Chinese red and made of brass that he gave her long ago
         G                               C
Like the red dirt Oklahoma hills and the springtime flowering trees
         G                                    D            G    
That she kept with all the love they shared inside her memories


INSTRUMENTAL: G  C  G  C  G  A  D  G  C  G  D  G


        D                     C             G
No, she never was a dancer or wrote a fancy line
    C                G             D
The treasures of her life, were the things she left behind
     G                                  C
They buried her without them, where the prairie grasses grow
   G                                   D             G
In China or a woman's heart, there are places no one knows


CHORUS:
       C                           G
Just a little box all covered with blossoms white as snow
C               G                     A7             D
Chinese red and made of brass that he gave her long ago
         G                               C
Like the red dirt Oklahoma hills and the springtime flowering trees
         G                                    D            G    
That she kept with all the love they shared inside her memories


                                       C
They buried her without them where the prairie grasses grow
   G                                   D             G
In China or a woman's heart, there are places no one knows