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The Convict and the Rose - Porter Wagoner

Lyricist：Betty Chapin/Robert King

Composer：Betty Chapin/Robert King

Producer：Bob Ferguson

Within my prison cell so dreary

Alone I sit with aching 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 fore 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 had to pay

But to the rose in all its glory

Not guilty's all that I can say

Goodbye sweetheart for in the morning

I'll meet my maker in repose

And when I'll go at daylight's dawning

Against my heart they'll find this rose