Chorus:



Elisa:

     Gm               Cm Gm 

They call me The Wild Rose



        A#            D

But my name was Elisa Day



          Gm                  Cm Gm

Why they call me it I do not know



                F     Gm

For my name was Elisa Day 





verse:



He:

         Gm                         A#

From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one



       Cm                     D

As she stared in my eyes and smiled



        Gm                         A#

For her lips were the color of the roses



     Cm                        D

They grew down the river, all bloody and wild 





verse:

Elisa:

When he knocked on my door and entered the room

My trembling subsided in his sure embrace

He would be my first man, and with a careful hand

He wiped the tears that ran down my face 



verse:

He:

On the second day I brought her a flower

She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen

I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow

So sweet and scarlet and free?" 



verse:

Elisa:

On the second day he came with a single rose

Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?"

I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed

He said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?" 



verse:

Elisa:

On the third day he took me to the river

He showed me the roses and we kissed

And the last thing I heard was a muttered word

As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist 



verse:

He:

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow

And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief

As I kissed her goodbye, I said, "All beauty must die"

And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth 



ending chorus:

Elisa:

They call me The Wild Rose

But my name was Elisa Day

Why they call me it I do not know

For my name was Elisa Day

       Gm       F     Gm

For my name was Elisa Day

       Gm       F     Gm

For my name was Elisa Day