Roses While I'm Living
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What care I for the purest white rose
Placed in my cold stiff hand?
What care I for the words of praise
When I can't understand?
When I can't understand, oh love
When I can't understand
What care I for the words of praise
When I can't understand?
I care not for the heaping wreaths
Upon my sacred mound
I cannot scent the fragrance sweet
When I'm beneath the ground
When I'm beneath the ground, oh love
When I'm beneath the ground
I cannot scent the fragrance sweet
When I'm beneath the ground
What good will the veranda do
Above my lifeless form?
When I am anchored in the vale
Safe sheltered from the storm
Oh give to me my roses now
Kind words of love I crave
Wait not 'til death has taken me
And I am in my grave
And I am in my grave, oh love
And I am in my grave
Wait not 'til death has taken me
And I am in my grave
Beyond the lowest solitude
I hope to find sweet rest
Pick now the words of comfort
And calm my troubled breast
Wait not 'til death has taken me
Alas it'll be too late
For I will not need your songs of praise
When I'm once beyond the grave
When I'm once beyond the grave, oh love
When I'm once beyond the grave
I will not need your songs of praise
When I'm once beyond the grave
What care I for the purest white rose
Placed in my cold stiff hand?
What care I for the words of praise
When I can't understand?