[00:00.00] 作词 : Reid[00:01.00] 作曲 : Harold Wilson Reid[00:05.81]She was called a scarlet woman by the people[00:10.04]Who would go to church but left me in the street[00:14.70]With no parents of my own,[00:16.96]I never had a home[00:19.64]And an eighteen year old boy has got to eat.[00:24.00]She found me outside one[00:27.11]Sunday morning[00:28.82]Begging money from a man[00:30.63]I didn't know[00:33.62]She took me in and wiped away my childhood[00:37.91]A woman of the streets this lady Rose.[00:42.79]This bed of Rose's thatI lay on[00:47.70]Where I was taught to be a man[00:52.24]This bed of Rose's where I'm livin'[00:56.85]Is the only kind of life[00:58.89]I understand.[01:02.10]She was a handsome woman, just thirty-five[01:10.90]Who was spoken to in town by very few[01:15.46]She managed a late evening business[01:19.97]Like most of the town wished they could do.[01:25.06]And I learned all the things that a man should know[01:29.36]From a woman not approved of[01:31.46]I suppose[01:33.95]But she died knowing that[01:36.21]I really loved her[01:38.56]Off life's bramble bush,[01:40.43]I picked a rose.[01:43.42]This bed of Rose's that I lay on[01:47.91]Where I was taught to be a man[01:52.74]This bed of Rose's where I'm livin'[01:57.23]Is the only kind of life[01:59.44]I understand.[02:02.39]This bed of Rose's that I lay on[02:06.70]Where I was taught to be a man[02:11.17]This bed of Rose's[02:13.30]where I'm livin'[02:15.74]Is the only kind of life[02:17.93]I understand.[02:21.01]