Bed Of Roses Lyrics - Man In Black: Live In Denmark 1971 - Johnny Cash

She was called a scarlet woman by the people 

Who would go to church but left me in the street 

With no parents of my own, I never had a home 

And an eighteen year old boy has got to eat 

She found me outside one Sunday morning 

Taking money from a man I didn't know 

She took me in and wiped away my childhood 

A woman of the streets this Lady Rose 

This bed of roses that I lay on 

Where I was taught to be a man 

This bed of roses where I'm living 

Is the only kind of love I understand 

She was a handsome woman just thirty-four 

Who was spoken to in town by very few 

She managed a late evening business 

Like most of the town wished they could do 

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And I learned all the things that a man should know 

From a woman not approved of I suppose 

But she died knowing that I really loved her 

Off life's bramble bush, I picked a rose 

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