She was called a scarlet woman by the people
Who would go to church but left me in the streets
With no parents of my own
Well I never had a home
But an eighteen year old boy has got to eat
She found me outside one Sunday morning
Begging 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
This bed of roses that I lay on
Where I was taught to be a man
This bed of roses where I'm living
Is the only kind of life I understand
She was a handsome woman just thirty-five
Who was spoken to in town by very few
She managed a late evening business
Like most of the town wished they could do
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
Off life's bramble bush I picked a rose
This bed of roses that I lay on
Where I was taught to be a man
This bed of roses where I'm living
Is the only kind of life I understand
This bed of roses that I lay on
Where I was taught to be a man
This bed of roses where I'm living
Is the only kind of life I understand
- :
- Patriots & Poets
- Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent
- Brothers of the Highway
- Brothers from Different Mothers
- Miscellaneous
- Singing From The Heart
- Tent Revival Homecoming
- Dailey & Vincent - Alive! in Concert
- Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers
- Giving Thanks
- Rounder Records 2009 IBMA Sampler
- Bluegrass Number One Hits
- The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent
- The Johnny Cash Music Festival 2011
- Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Vol. 2
- The Rounder Records Story
- Dailey & Vincent
- A Bluegrass Gospel Songbook
- Bluegrass Special
- Johnny Cash: Forever Words