The Convict And The Rose - Rusty Richards

作词：R. A. King/Betty Chapin

作曲：R. A. King/Betty Chapin

Within my prison cell so dreary

Alone I sit with weary heart

I'm thinking of my lonely darling

From her forever I must part

A rose she sent me as a token

She sent it just to light my gloom

To tell me that her heart is broken

To cheer me before I meet my doom

She wrote I took it from the garden

Where once we wandered side by side

But now you hold no hope of pardon

And I can never be your bride

The judge would not believe my story

The jury said I have to pay

But still the rose in all it's glory

Not guilty's all that I can say

Goodbye sweetheart for in the morning

I'll meet my keeper and repose

And when I die at daylight's dawning

Against my heart they'll find this rose