Lyr Req/Add: Where the Wild Roses Grow (Nick Cave)

Subject: Banks of the Roses/Where the Wild Roses grow
From: Håvard
Date: 23 Sep 98 - 02:36 PM

It just occured to me, when I heard Nick Cave's "Where the Wild Roses Grow" today - it might be inspired by Hamish Hendersons version of "Banks of the Roses" (Banks of the Roses (2)) in the database.

Does anyone know if this is so?
Håvard

Subject: Nick Cave's Where the Wild Roses Grow
From: Danila Medvedev
Date: 25 Oct 98 - 05:40 AM

Hello!

If someone happen to have the text of Where the Wild Roses Grow, please, please, please, e-mail it to [e-mail].

Danila Medvedev

Subject: wild rose - Eliza Day?
From: alison
Date: 29 May 02 - 11:44 AM

I heard a song... sounded like Kate bush doing a duet with a man....

anyway she falls in love with him and he kills her with a rock ... charming eh?

chorus sounded like

they call me the wild rose
but my name is eliza day
why they call me it I do not know
for my name is eliza day


anyone know what it is?

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: wild rose - Eliza Day?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 29 May 02 - 11:51 AM

Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave, believe it or not, with Cave's song Where the Wild Roses Grow. Lyrics are available in a number of places online, one being www.kylie.co.uk/

Where The Wild Roses Grow

I only know this because it was on the jukebox at my Local for years, honest.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: wild rose - Eliza Day?
From: IanC
Date: 29 May 02 - 11:57 AM

Lyrics with tabs here.

:-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: wild rose - Eliza Day?
From: alison
Date: 29 May 02 - 12:14 PM

wow.. that was Kylie?????

I could have sworn it was a traditional song..... sounded like one....... well there you go....

thanks fellas

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: wild rose - Eliza Day?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 02 - 02:43 PM

And here was me thinking the thread was a petition for a national "Eliza Carthy Day" *grin*

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: wild rose - Eliza Day?
From: Helen
Date: 29 May 02 - 08:16 PM

alison,

I've noticed Nick Cave seems to be getting more and more folkish, in an inimitable (i.e. unable to be imitated) Nick Cave style.

As for Kyles - her phrasing in that song is so sing-song compared to Nick's lovely phrasing that I find it very hard to listen to the song without being annoyed. Kylie only seems to know about the usual note lengths - half, quarter etc, where Nick can bend the timing beautifully and knows when to put effective pauses in. The two are like chalk and cheese as singers, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Helen (ducking for cover)

Subject: Lyr Add: WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW (Nick Cave)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 10:04 PM

WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW
Nick Cave
Recorded by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, with Kylie Minogue

CHORUS: They call me The Wild Rose,
But my name was Elisa Day.
Why they call me it I do not know,
For my name was Elisa Day.

From the first day I saw her, I knew she was the one.
She stared in my eyes and smiled.
Her lips were the colour of the roses
That grew down the river all bloody and wild.

When he knocked on my door and entered the room,
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace.
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand,
He wiped at the tears that ran down my face. CHORUS

On the second day, I brought her a flower.
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen.
I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow,
So sweet and scarlet and free?"

On the second day he came with a single red rose,
He said, "Give me your loss and your sorrow."
I nodded my head as I lay on the bed.
"If I show you the roses, will you follow?" CHORUS

On the third day, he took me to the river.
He showed me the roses and we kissed;
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word,
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist.

On the last day, I took her where the wild roses grow.
She lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief,
And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die"
And I leant down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where the Wild Roses Grow (Nick Cave)
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 29 Apr 08 - 07:05 PM

Great song - lovely to perform as a duet, as I once did.

Sue