Black Rose Lyrics - Waylon Jennings

(Billy Joe Shaver) 

Way down in Virginia 

Amongst the tall grown sugar canes 

Lived a simple man and a dominique hen 

And a rose of a different name. 

Well, the first time I fell lightly 

I was standing in the drizzling rain 

With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin 

And a rose of a different name. 

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Well, the devil made me do it the first time 

The second time I done it on my own 

Lord, put a handle on a simple handed man 

And help me leave that black rose alone. 

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When the devil made that woman 

Lord, she threw the pattern away 

She was built for speed with the tools 

You need to make a new fool every day. 

Way down deep and dirty 

On the darker side of shame 

I caught a cane cuttin' man with a bottle of gin 

With a rose of a different name. 

The devil made me do it the first time 

The second time I done it on my own 

Lord, put a handle on a simple handed man 

And help me leave that black rose alone. 

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The devil made me do it the first time 

The second time I done it on my own 

Lord, put a handle on a simple handed man 

And help me leave that black rose alone...