SWEET WAS MY ROSE
New Velvet Glove - 1974


Sweet was my Rose
In the light of the rising sun
Never forget her
Keep alive for everyone

Sweet was my Rose
In the light of the rising sun
Never forget her
Keep alive for everyone

On the day that I recall
Was a bright and sunny dawn
And we hadn't seen a yankee
Since a week before the summer storm
So Momma said to sister Rose
"I guess it's safe to take a horse,
Get out and try to find your Dad and Uncle Ben"
Though I ????? not to send her, she felt,
"Your sister's goin', you're too young"
She rode out, never saw my sister Rose again

Sweet was my Rose
In the light of the rising sun
Never forget her
Keep alive for everyone

Some people tell that fateful morn'
She rode to Shannon creek
Making 'quiries at the bar of Uncle Ben
From there she rode to Shadow Valley
From afar she saw Pa
Uncle Ben was less alive than dead
There was Pa with his arms a'waving to Rose
But too late the crossfire caught her
Rose was shoutin'
"Get out and save your own skin"

If you go to Shadow Valley
Upon a hillside there's a headstone
Carved upon it is this inscription
Oh oh

Sweet was my Rose
In the light of the rising sun
Never forget her
Keep alive for everyone

Sweet was my Rose
In the light of the rising sun
Never forget her
Keep alive for everyone

Sweet was my Rose
In the light of the rising sun
Never forget her
Keep alive for everyone



(Transcribed by Monique Adriaansen & Mel Priddle - December 2003)