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Little Rosa
Red Sovine
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Webb Pierce
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Little Rosa was her name
And still I cry in vain
My world won't be the same
Since she's gone from me
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I had gone to visit the grave of a friend of mine
And as I walked through the graveyard
I noticed this man kneeling down by the grave of a child
And in his hand he held a big red rose
And tears were streaming down his cheeks
I walked over and laid a hand on his shoulder
And started to talk to him and during the course of our conversation
And in his broken English this is the story just as he told it to me
He said, "Mister, I'm a-walking down the street-a today
And I passed by a big flower shop
I walked in and I asked the man in the shop
I said, 'Boss, how much for one red rose?'
And he looked at me with one big frown
And he said, 'One dollar, please'
But then by and by, a swell dressed blonde young lady walked in
And she says, 'How much for one red rose?'
And he looked at her with one big smile and he said, 'Ten cents'
And I said, 'Boss, how come you charged me a dollar for the rose
And you charged the young lady only ten cents?'
And he says, 'Look, mister, you tell me why you want the rose
And maybe I'll give it to you for naught'
And I said, 'Boss, I'm a hard workin' man
Working the railroad and only make three dollars a day
And I got a little girl and her name is Rosa
Rosa's just about this high, boss
Every day when I come home from work
Little Rosa come running to meet her papa
She throw her little arms around my neck and say 'Papa'
And I say 'Rosa'
But one day, boss, I come home from work and I don't see Rosa
I look down by the railroad track and I see one big crowd
I go down and I push the crowd this way and I push the crowd that way
And there, boss, at my feet lay my little Rosa
And that's why I want the rose, boss
I want to put it on little Rosa's grave'
And the man, he don't say naught
But he picked the biggest and the reddest rose
And he give it to me and I say, 'Thank you, boss
Thank you very much'
And though she's gone, you see
She's still the world to me
To me she'll always be
That little girl of mine
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