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Title: Sandlewood Poets - Special Presentation

Author: SB Poetry Contest

"Where the Wild Roses Grow"
by Nick Cave

Performed May 27th by Ilkroyne and Elwynn.

They call me the Wild Rose

But my name is Elisa Day

Why they call me that, I do not know

For my name is Elisa Day

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

She stared in my eyes and smiled

Or her lips were the color of roses that

grew by the river, bloody and wild.

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When he knocked on my door and entered my room

My trembling subsided to warm embrace

He would be my first man with careful hand

He waiped at the tears that ran down my face

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On the second day I brought her a flower

She was more beautiful than any woman I had ever seen

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

so sweet and scarlet and free?"

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On the second day he came with a single rose.

Said give me your loss and your sorrow,

I nodded my head as I lay on the bed

"If I show you the roses will you follow?"

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On the third day he took me to the river and we kissed

And the last thing I heard

was a muttered word

As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist

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

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

And I kissed her goodbye. Said "All beauty must die"

And bent down and planted a rose tween her teeth.

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He called me wild rose but my name was Elisa Day

Why he called me that I do not know

For my name was Elisa Day.