Where The Wild Roses Grow Lyrics - Cave Nick

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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