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They call me the wild rose, But my name was Eliza Day
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Why they call me that I do not know, For my name was Eliza Day
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From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
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She stared in my eyes and smiled
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Her lips were the colour of the roses
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That grew down the river, All bloody and wild
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When he knocked on my door, And entered the room
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My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
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He would be my first man, And with a careful hand
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He wiped up the tears, That ran down my face
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They call me the wild rose, But my name was Eliza Day
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Why they call me that I do not know, For my name was Eliza Day
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On the second day, I brought her a flower
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She was more beautiful, Than any woman I'd seen
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I said do you know, Where the wild roses grow
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So sweet and scarlet and free
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On the second day he came, With a single red rose
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He said, Give me your loss and your sorrow
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I nodded my head, As I lay on the bed
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If I show you the roses will you follow
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They call me the wild rose, But my name was Eliza Day
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Why they call me that I do not know, For my name was Eliza Day
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On the third day he took me to the river
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He showed me the roses, And we kissed
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And the last thing I heard, Was a muttered word
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As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist
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On the last day I took her, Where the wild roses grow
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As she lay on the bank, The wind light as a thief
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And I kissed her goodbye, Said all beauty must die
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And I leant down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth
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They call me the wild rose, But my name was Eliza Day
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Why they call me that I do not know, For my name was Eliza Day
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My name was Eliza Day, For my name was Eliza Day