Wild Rose

WILD ROSE

© Walt Cronin 2011

She were a wild rose and she grew up free

And the thorns they’d protect her wherever she’d be

Not a lad in the county could lay claim to her heart

As swift as the wind just as soon she would part


So who broke this young girl’s spirit in two?

So fair and so pretty who’d have done this to you?

And no one came callin’ for she’d always be gone

She’d be pickin’ wildflowers when the sun had gone down


Some would conjecture that not long before

A young man she so loved had gone off to war

His promise was broken that he would return

And the heart of this wild rose did certainly learn

She would not love another, she would never be hurt

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She were a wild rose and she grew up free

And the thorns they’d protect her wherever she’d be

Not a lad in the county could lay claim to her heart

As swift as the wind just as soon she would part





So who broke this young girl’s spirit in two?

So fair and so pretty who’d have done this to you?

And no one came callin’ for she’d always be gone

She’d be pickin’ wildflowers when the sun had gone down


Some would conjecture that not long before

A young man she so loved had gone off to war

His promise was broken that he would return

And the heart of this wild rose did certainly learn

And the heart of this wild rose did certainly learn
She would not love another nor again she'd be hurt
She would not love another nor again she'd be hurt
She would not love another nor again she'd be hurt