Wild Rose

I could have done it easy

Gone down this road in style

I could’ve had the diamonds

And bought them with a smile

I might have been the Lady

Of as upright millionaire

Coulda done it easy

But it would not have been fair

In my heart I always knew

What I was meant to be

And in a stately mansion

I never could be free

So I forsook the diamonds

And all the pretty clothes

And I chose the life instead

Of a Wild and Ramblin’ Rose

Oh, but out here on the fringes

Where the wayward breezes blow

There are places where a cultivated flower

Could never grow

I have put down roots amongst the rocks

Heaven only knows

I have always been a Wild Rose

Mama cried the day I left

She did not understand

How I could ever make it

In this world without a man

But Daddy he just smiled at me

‘Cause deep down in his soul

He knew the sun would shine upon

A Wild and Ramblin’ Rose

Oh, but out here on the fringes

Where the wayward breezes blow

There are places where a cultivated flower

Could never grow

I have put down roots amongst the rocks

Heaven only knows

I have always been a Wild Rose

I have always been a Wild Rose