Where The Wild Roses Grow Lyrics

Where The Wild Roses Grow lyrics

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 Where The Wild Roses Grow



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 A traditional song dealing with rivers and roses is also available. 



 



 



 



 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



 She stared in my eyes and smiled



 For her lips were the colour of the roses



 That 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 at the tears that ran down my face 



 



 Chorus 



 



 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 red rose



 Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow"



 I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed



 He said, "If I show you the roses, will you follow?" 



 



 Chorus 



 



 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 knelt (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



 And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die"



 And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth 



 



 Chorus