Hank Snow - The Convict And The Rose
The Convict And The Rose
Hank Snow

Within my prison cell so dreary

I sit alone with achin' heart

I'm dreamin' of my little darlin'

From her forever, I must part

The rose she sent me as a token

She sent it just to lighten my gloom
And tell me that her heart was broken

And cheer me before I meet my doom

She wrote I picked it from the garden,

Where once we wandered side by side.

Now you hold no hope of pardon,
And I can never be your bride.


The jury said I had to pay
The judge would not believe my story


And with the rose in all its glory

"Not guilty" was all that I could say

Goodbye, sweetheart, for in the morning

To meet my Maker I must go

And when I die at daylight's dawnin'

Against my heart they'll find this rose

Within my prison cell so dreary

I sit alone with achin' heart
I'm dreamin' of my little darlin'

From her forever, I must part

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