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 i knew she was the one
as she stared in my eyes and smiled.
For her lips where the colour of the roses
that grew down the river, all b_____ and wild.

When he knocked on my door and entered the room,
my trembeling 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.

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?".

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",
lent down and planted a rose between her teeth.

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