I heard your echo
As I walked these halls
I saw your picture
On the stone cold walls
I remembered you telling me
Your love would never die
And then you turned your back and said
Good luck and goodbye

And you gave me a black rose
And my heart turns dark as a storm grows
And where you've gone only heaven knows
I feel so blue knowing you
Gave me a black rose

I saw you taillights
Fading down the street
I held that black rose
And it smelled so sweet
A thorn cut my fingertip
I hurt so deep inside
And I tasted the bad blood of
A good love that died

And you gave me a black rose
And my heart turns dark as a storm grows
And where you've gone only heaven knows
I feel so blue knowing you
Gave me a black rose

And you gave me a black rose
And where you've gone only heaven knows
And I now live where no angel goes
I feel so blue knowing you
Gave me a black rose
A black rose

I heard your echo
As I walked these halls
I saw your picture
On the stone cold walls
I remembered you telling me
Your love would never die
And then you turned your back and said
Good luck and goodbye

And you gave me a black rose
And my heart turns dark as a storm grows
And where you've gone only heaven knows
I feel so blue knowing you
Gave me a black rose

I saw you taillights
Fading down the street
I held that black rose
And it smelled so sweet
A thorn cut my fingertip
I hurt so deep inside
And I tasted the bad blood of
A good love that died

And you gave me a black rose
And my heart turns dark as a storm grows
And where you've gone only heaven knows
I feel so blue knowing you
Gave me a black rose

And you gave me a black rose
And where you've gone only heaven knows
And I now live where no angel goes
I feel so blue knowing you
Gave me a black rose
A black rose

I saw you in the garden
I wanted you so much
I really thought that you were different
Oh I couldn't get enough

I tried to save you from yourself
I felt every high and low
now the lows have drowned the highs away
now there's no where else to go

Black rose your thorns are cutting into me for the last time
Black rose I watched your petals wilt away
I couldn't bring you back to life

You were always where the sun could never go
I never wanted you to have to be alone
But I couldn't find a way to help you grow
Black Rose

You never tell me how you feel
and your moods they always change
I really tried to make it real
but you never had the faith
I tried to give you something good to take the pain away
I tried to make you understand
You don't have to be this way

Black rose your thorns are cutting into me for the last time
Black rose I watched your petals wilt away
I couldn't bring you back to life

You were always where the sun could never go
I never wanted you to have to be alone
But I couldn't find a way to help you grow
Black Rose

I'm not the one who hurt you
So why are you so scared
(I couldn't save you) (You are who you are)
All that you've been put through
couldn't be repaired
(I couldn't break through) (we're too far apart)
I'm not the one who hurt
I'm the only one who cares
(I couldn't save you) (You are who you are)
You'll need someone to turn to
And I will not be there
(I couldn't save you)

Every time I held you
I knew that it would hurt
Only through the pain
I could find a way to learn

Black rose your thorns are cutting into me for the last time
Black rose I watched your petals wilt away
So wilt away I couldn't bring you back to life

You were always where the sun could never go
I never wanted you to have to be alone
But I couldn't find a way to help you grow
Black Rose

I'm not the one who hurt you
So why are you so scared
(I couldn't save you) (You are who you are)
All that you've been put through
couldn't be repaired
(I couldn't break through) (we're too far apart)
I'm not the one who hurt
I'm the only one who cares
(I couldn't save you) (You are who you are)
You'll need someone to turn to
And I will not be there
(I couldn't save you)

Tell me the legends of long ago
When the kings and queens would dance in the realm of the black rose
Play me the melodies i want to know
So i can teach my children, oh

Pray tell me the story of young c£ chulainn
How his eyes were dark his expression sullen
And how he'd fight and always won
And how they cried when he was fallen

Oh tell me the story of the queen of this land
And how her sons died at her own hand
And how fools obey commands
Oh tell me the legends of long ago

Where the mountains of mourne come down to the sea
Will she no come back to me
Will she no come back to me

Oh shenandoah i hear you calling
Far away you rolling river
Roll down the mountain side
On down on down go lassie go

Oh tell me the legends of long ago
When the kings and queens would dance in the realms of the black rose
Play me the melodies so i might know
So i can tell my children, oh

My roisin dubh is my one and only true love
It was a joy that joyce brought to me
While william butler waits
And oscar, he's going wilde

Ah sure, brendan where have you behan?
Looking for a girl with green eyes
My dark rosaleen is my only colleen
That georgie knows best

But van is the man
Starvation once again
Drinking whiskey in the jar-o
Synge's playboy of the western world

As shaw, sean i was born and reared there
Where the mountains of mourne come down to the sea
Is such a long, long way from tipperary

Mr frankie diamond was my best friend
We were partners in a business down on c & 7th
Nothin' ever got this good brother down
He was a real live wire in an electric town
Frankie started hangin' with an uptown girl
A harlem lady in the social whirl
On saturday night he'd put on his best clothes
And go out steppin' with his black rose
Now frankie went upstate for a couple of years
A guest of the nation and he was in tears
He called me up, he said "hey friend of mine
I got one favour to ask ya while i'm doin' my time
She's the queen of new york city
She bewitch all men soul
She the blood that flow right through me
So don't be messin' with my black rose
Keep your hands off my black rose"
My black rosie, he don't own ya...
While frankie was upstate, his harlem girl
Continued to spiral in her social whirl
So i paged her from my gig on east 7th
I said, "hey, babe, you doin' anythin' roundabout 11?"
She said "uh-uh" in her uptown voice
So we met at beiruit for cocktails and ice
When she crossed that room in her tight red dress
I wasn't thinkin' of frankie, I have to confess
She said "hey, best friend, let's go back to my place
I need to fix my mascara and remodel my face"
But it rained on the way back to her house
And when she closed the door she took off her blouse
She's the queen of new york city
She bewitch all men soul
Next thing i know i'm whisperin' sweet nothin's
Lyin' in bed with my black rose
I'm makin' love to my black..
My black rosie, he don't own ya
So stay with me tonight...
At nights i'd lie there and listen to her breathe
With the sweat on my brow, how could she sleep?
So deep, so sweet as calm as a rock
While i pushed back the seconds oozing from the clock...
Now the letters i wrote frankie returned unread
The word leaked out i'd be better off dead
But in the crimson dawn, black rose would unfold
And drain all the poison from my soul...
Drain me rosie...
Now i'm standin' up here on forty deuce
Another terminal man waitin' for his bus
Here come frankie with his head all shaved
Is that a piece in his pocket, or is it a blade?
Now i'm lyin' face down in the terminal dirt
With a hole in my chest, but i don't feel no hurt
I don't wanna go to heaven, i been there before
Just spent two years in paradise with my black rose...
She's the queen of New york city
She bewitch all men soul
When you go and find her body
Bury me next to my black rose
Still in love with my black rose
She's up in heaven now, my black rose
You won't be makin' love to my black...
My black rosie, he don't own ya...
So stay with me tonight, for the rest of your life...
Roisin dhubh me no can get over you
A time is in me mind no matter what i do
Roisin dhubh me no can get over you
Now frankie comin' back and i know that i am through
Mister frankie diamond tell me do the right thing
Watch his girl while he away at sing sing
But me and rosie, we have a little fling
Now frankie comin' home, wicked trouble it will bring...
Wicked trouble it will bring...
Lord have mercy!

by Troy Seals and Eddie Setser

The dogs are howling at the midnight moon.
I'm on my way to where the black rose blooms.
The mountain's high, the night is cold.
I feel the sunshine; a black rose grows.

Together again, we're as common as sin, they say,
We just walk around the stones they throw.
Night after night, we steal away to where
Love don't see no colors in the shadows,
Love don't see no colors in the shadows.

Wind in the willows, wild and warm,
Just like the woman lying here in my arms.
The water's deep, cold and still.
I love the feeling that black rose gives.

Chorus

Chorus

Love don't see no colors in the shadows.

Way down in Virginia
Amongst the tall grown sugar canes
Lived a simple man and a dominiker hen
And a rose of a different name.

Well, the first time I felt lightning
I was standing in the drizzling rain
With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin
And a rose of a different name.

Well, the devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple headed man
And help me leave that black rose alone.

--- Instrumental ---

When the devil made that woman
Lord, he threw the pattern away
She was built for speed with the tools you need
To make a new fool every day.

Way down deep and dirty
On the darker side of shame
I caught a cane cuttin' man with a bottle of gin
With a rose of a different name.

The devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple headed man
Help me leave that black rose alone.

The devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple headed man
Help me leave that black rose alone...