Blue Sky Boys
the convict and the rose
Within my prison cellso dreary
alone I sit with weary heart
I'm thinking of my lonely darling
From her forever I must part
A rose, she sent me as a token
She sent it just to light my gloom
To tell me that her heart is broken
To cheer me 'fore I meet my doom
She wrote, I took it from the garden
Where once we wandered side by side
But now you hold no hopes of pardon
And I can never be your bride
Instrumental
The judge would not believe my story
the jury said I'd have to pay
but to the rose in all it's glory
not guilty's all that I can say
Instrumental
Goodbye sweetheart, for in the morning
I'll meet my Maker and repose
And when I go at daylight's dawning
Against my heart they'll find your rose
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