[00:02.49]Bed of roses-Statler Brothers
[00:04.81]she was called a scarlet woman by the people
[00:09.21]who would goto church but left me in the streets
[00:13.87]with no parents of my own, i never had a home
[00:18.85]but an eighteen year old boy has got to eat
[00:22.07]
[00:23.50]she found me outside one sunday morning
[00:27.77]begging money from a man i did't know
[00:32.69]she took me in and wiped away my childhood
[00:37.57]a woman of the streets this lady rose
[00:41.07]
[00:42.25]this bed of roses that i lay on
[00:46.71]where i was taught to be a man
[00:51.31]this bed of roses where i'm livin'
[00:56.67]is the only kind of life i'll understand
[00:59.83]
[01:05.40]she was a handsome woman just thirty-five
[01:10.24]who was spoken to in town by very few
[01:15.51]she managed a late evening business
[01:19.51]like most of the town wished they could do
[01:23.04]
[01:24.12]and i learned all the things that a man should know
[01:28.57]from a woman not approved of,i suppse
[01:33.29]she died knowing someone really loved her
[01:38.04]from life's bramble bush i picked a rose
[01:43.08]this bed of roses that i lay on
[01:47.24]where i was taught to be a man
[01:51.77]this bed of roses where i'm livin'
[01:56.18]is the only kind of life i'll understand
[02:01.10]
[02:01.44]this bed of roses that i lay on
[02:05.53]where i was taught to be a man
[02:10.27]this bed of roses where i'm livin'
[02:14.64]is the only kind of life i'll understand