Cave Nick Where The Wild Roses Grow Lyrics

Where The Wild Roses Grow Lyrics

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I
do not know
For my name was Elisa Day
From the first day I saw her I knew
she was the one
As she stared in my eyes and smiled
For her lips were the
colour of the roses
They grew down the river, all bloody and wild
When he
knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure
embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped the
tears that ran down my face
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On the second day I brought her a
flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, 'Do you
know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?'
On the
second day he came with a single rose
Said: 'Will you give me your loss and
your sorrow?'
I nodded my head, as I lied on the bed
He said, 'If I show
you the roses will you follow?'
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On the third day he took me to the
river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was
a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist
On
the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank,
the wind light as a thief
As I kissed her goodbye, I said, 'All beauty must
die'
And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth
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