Bed of Roses Lyrics

# Bed of Roses - The Statler Brothers
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#Email: Dlgibson@netscape.com
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#Tuning: Standard
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#Artist: Statler Brothers
#Album: The Best of the Statler Bros.
#Year: 1975
#(Repeat for 1st & 3rd Verse)
Verse 1:
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.
Verse 2:
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. .........
Chorus:
This bed of Rose's that I lay on
Where I was taught to be a man
This bed of Rose's where I'm livin'
Is the only kind of life I understand. .........
Verse3:
She was a handsome woman, just thirty-five
Who was spoken to in town by very few
But she managed the ladies main business
Like most of the town wished they could do.
Verse 4:
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
Of life's bramble bush, I picked a rose. .........
(Repeat Chorus 2x)