Jennings Waylon Black Rose Lyrics

Black Rose Lyrics

Verse 1:

 Way down in Virginia

 Amongst the tall grown sugar canes

 Lived a simple man and a domineering hen

 And a rose of a different name

 

 Verse 2:

 The first time I fell lightly

 I was standing in the drizzling rain

 With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin

 And a rose of a different name

 

 Chorus:

 The devil made me do it the first time

 The second time I done it on my own

 Lord put a handle on a simple handed man

 And help me leave that black rose alone

 

 Verse 3:

 When the devil made that woman

 Lord she threw the pattern away

 She was built for speed with the tools you need

 To make a new fool every day

 

 Verse 4:

 Way down deep and dirty

 On the darker side of shame	   

 I caught a cane cuttin' man with a bottle of gin

 With a rose of a different name

 

 Chorus (x2).