I heard this on Spotify. You can also hear it on YouTube. This is my transcription. His tendency to spread one syllable over two or more notes compelled me to invent some bizarre spellings.


LET ME GIVE YOU ROSES, ROSE
As sung by Mike Absalom on "Mike Absalom" (1971)

Let me give you roses, Rose Marie,
Even though you are so prick-a-ly [prickly].
Cactus is ... [unintelligible]
Let me bring you roses, Ro-wo-woze [Rose].

I know where you're at by the plants you picks,
Acting like an addict with an idée fixe.
You've been out collecting where the morning glory glows.
Let me bring you roses, Rose.

I know that you've been eating mushrooms.
Can't be too mush room in your head,
'Cause you halloo-halloo-hallucinate
When you should be watching me instead.

Let me bring you roses, Rose Marie,
Rearrange your yes-and-noes.
Forget-me-nots is soon forgot.
Let me bring you roses, Rose.

You've been dibble-dabbling in zen,
And those old black magic spells again,
Dandelion cooking; yes, it shows.
Let me bring you roses, Ro-wo-woze [Rose].

Yesterday you tried to read my palm.
Today you're nearly halfway up my arm.
It's a crystal balls-up; that's the way it goes.
Let me bring you roses, Rose.

I don't begrudge you mescaline or psilocybin
Before you go to bed,
But do you really have to bring a tri-yibe [tribe] in
To prove you are a hea-ea-ead [head]?

Let me bring you roses, Rose Marie.
Rearrange your status quos.
Ev'rybody says we're a prick-a-ly [prickly] pair.
Let me bring you roses, Rose.

Ev'rybody says we're a prick-a-ly [prickly] pair.
Let me bring you roses, Rose.