Give Me the Roses [core]
Wonderful things of folks are said
5 When they have passed a 1 way
Roses adorn the narrow bed
5 Over the sleeping 1 clay
Chorus
4 Give me the roses 1 while I live
Trying to cheer me 5 on
1 Useless are flowers that you give
5 After the soul is 1 gone
Praises are heard not by the dead
Roses they cannot see
Let us not wait till souls have fled
Generous friends to be
Faults are forgiven when folks lie
Cold in the narrow bed
Let us forgive them ere they die
Now should the words be said
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