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Lyrics

Intro/half Chorus:
The Dead Roses on Grandmother's Bureau ... in spite of what anyone said...
She'd tend 'n preciously keep them ... as if she didn't know they were dead...

1. I see them now, just as perfectly as the day that Grandpa died
Grandmother's garden roses on her bureau vase inside
Boyishly, he'd picked them for her only the day before
'n lovingly, she scolded him not to pick them anymore ...
2. 'n in the days that followed all the roses lost their bloom ...
'n died like all of happiness that I'd once found in her room ...
'n through the years, when night would roll around ... I'd tip-toe up to her door ...
'n watched her watering those dead roses... that just weren't living anymore ...

Full Chorus:
The Dead Roses on Grandmother's Bureau ... in spite of what anyone said ...
She'd tend 'n preciously keep them ... as if she didn't know they were dead ...
-- Yes, The Dead Roses on Grandmother's Bureau ... Why were they still in her room?
For some crazy reason, I wondered if someday they might once again bloom

3. Then, one night, I peeked in to see her ... as she was taking them down from her drawer ...
'n I was so sure, in the mornin' I'd wake up 'n find ... they'd all be alive like before ...
'n I believed so hard that they'd live again ... I dreamed that night that they bloomed ...
'n I woke up calling Grandma ... 'n shoutin' to her from my room ...
4. But Mama soon came to my bedside ... 'n she told me that Grandma had died ...
they'd found her that mornin' clutchin' the roses that I was so sure had come alive
Then, she told me that Grandma had told her that she'd saved them 'n kept them for
when …
Her 'n Grandpa would re-plant them ... where they'd never ever die again

© 2022 Mark Brine (Published by Miss Rebecca Music ASCAP)