"Give Me Roses While I Live" is a song by James Rowe lyrics, R. H. Cornelius music in 1925. The Carters recorded the song in 1933 and it is one of their popular songs:

GIVE ME THE ROSES WHILE I LIVE- Carter Family

1. Wonderful things of folks are said
When they have passed away
Roses adorn their narrow bed
Over the sleeping clay

CHORUS: Give me the roses while I live
Trying to cheer me on
Useless are flowers that you give
After the soul is gone

2. Let us not wait to do good deeds
Till they have passed away
Now is the time to sow good seeds
While here on earth we stay

3. Kind words are useless when folks lie
Cold in a narrow bed
Don't wait till death to speak kind words
Now should the words be said

4. Give me the roses while I live
Don't wait until I die
To spread the roses over my grave
To see as you pass it by