SHE WAS CALLED

A SCAR LET WO MAN

BY THE PEO PLE

WHO WOULD

GO TO CHURCH BUT

LEFT ME IN THE STREETS

AND WITH NO PAR ENTS

OF MY OWN

I NE VER HAD A HOME

AND AN

EIGH TEEN- YEAR- OLD BOY

HAS GOT TO EAT

SHE FOUND ME OUT SIDE

ONE SUN DAY MOR NIN'

BEG GIN' MO NEY FROM

A MAN I DID N'T KNOW

SHE TOOK ME IN

AND WIPED A WAY

MY CHILD HOOD

A WO MAN

OF THE STREETS

THIS LA DY ROSE

THIS BED OF RO SE'S

THAT I LAY ON

WHERE I WAS TAUGHT

TO BE A MAN

THIS BED OF RO SE'S

WHERE I'M LI VIN'

IS THE ON LY KIND OF LIFE

I UN DER STAND

SHE WAS

A HAND SOME WO MAN

JUST THIR TY- FIVE

WHO WAS SPO KEN TO

IN TOWN BY VE RY FEW

SHE MA NAGED A

LATE- EVE NING BUSI NESS

LIKE MOST OF THE TOWN

WISHED THEY COULD DO

AND I LEARNED

ALL THE THINGS THAT

A MAN SHOULD KNOW

FROM A WO MAN

NOT AP PROVED OF

I SUP POSE

BUT SHE DIED KNOW IN'

THAT I REAL LY

LOVED HER

OFF LIFE'S

BRAM BLE BUSH

I'D PICKED A ROSE

THIS BED OF RO SE'S

THAT I LAY ON

WHERE I WAS TAUGHT

TO BE A MAN

THIS BED OF RO SE'S

WHERE I'M LI VIN'

IS THE ON LY KIND OF LIFE

I UN DER STAND

THIS BED OF RO SE'S

THAT I LAY ON

WHERE I WAS TAUGHT

TO BE A MAN

THIS BED OF RO SE'S

WHERE I'M LI VIN'

IS THE ON LY KIND OF LIFE

I UN DER STAND

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