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
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

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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 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?"

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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 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

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