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LITTLE YELLOW ROSES
As recorded by Fay Hield on "Looking Glass" (2010)

I lay on my back with the sun in my eyes.
Soon I will know what no living man knows.
All of my life's been a fight against lies.
Death brings the truth and it's my turn to know.

CHORUS: Send my mother a lock of my hair.
Send my father the watch that he gave me.
Tell my brother to follow me if he dare.
Tell them I'm lost now, and no-one can save me.
Remember, remember, send my love little yellow roses.

My father taught me that all men are equal
Whatever colour, religion or land;
Told me to fight for the things I believed in.
This I have done, with a gun in my hand.

CHORUS

I met my love in a garden of roses.
She pricked her finger; how sharp the thorn grows!
We made a promise that till Death did part us
We'd never look on that wild yellow rose.

CHORUS