Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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(Little Rosa was her
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name and still I cry in vain
My world won't be the same
Verse 2
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I have gone to visit the grave of a friend of mine
I noticed this man kneeling down
by the grave of a child
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And in his hand he held a big red rose and tears
were streaming down his cheeks
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I walked over and laid a hand on his shoulder
and started to talk to him
And during the course of our conversation
This is the story just as he told it to me
He said to me Mister I've walked
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I walked in and I asked the man in the shop I said
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boss how much is for one red rose
and he says it's one dollar please
But in a buyin' buyer was well dressed
blonde lady walked in
one red rose
And he looked at her with one big smile
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and he says ten cents
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Now I said boss how come to you to charge
And you charged the young
lady only ten cents
Then he said look Mister you tell
me why you want the rose
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And maybe I give it to you for not
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I said boss I'm a hard working man working
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a railroad and gonna make too much money
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And I got a little girl and her name was Rosa
o Rosa's just about this high boss
Every day when I'd come home
from the work
A little Rosa come running
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And she'd throw her little arms around my
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from the work I don't see Rosa
and I see one big crowd
I'd go down and I pushed the crowd this
a way and pushed the crowd that a way
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There was at my feet lay my little Rosa
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and that's why I want the rose boss
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I wanna put it on little Rosa's grave
the biggest and the reddest rose
And he gave it to me
And I said thank you boss
Verse 3
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And though she's gone you see
To me she'll always be that
little girl of mine
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