[00:09.65]They call me The Wild Rose[00:16.49]But my name was Elisa Day[00:21.08]Why they call me it I do not know[00:28.16]For my name was Elisa Day[00:32.97]From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one[00:37.62]She stared in my eyes and smiled[00:42.11]For her lips were the colour of the roses[00:46.91]That grew down the river, all bloody and wild[00:51.52]When he knocked on my door and entered the room[00:56.23]My trembling subsided in his sure embrace[01:00.73]He would be my first man, and with a careful hand[01:05.53]He wiped at the tears that ran down my face[01:12.10]They call me The Wild Rose[01:19.33]But my name was Elisa Day[01:23.88]Why they call me it I do not know[01:31.05]For my name was Elisa Day[01:35.75]On the second day I brought her a flower[01:40.21]She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen[01:45.02]I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow[01:49.98]So sweet and scarlet and free?"[01:54.62]On the second day he came with a single red rose[01:59.94]Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow"[02:03.98]I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed[02:09.09]He said, "If I show you the roses, will you follow?"[02:15.56]They call me The Wild Rose[02:22.39]But my name was Elisa Day[02:27.24]Why they call me it I do not know[02:33.92]For my name was Elisa Day[02:39.27]On the third day he took me to the river[02:43.42]He showed me the roses and we kissed[02:47.97]And the last thing I heard was a muttered word[02:52.98]As he knelt (stood smiling) above me with a rock in his fist[02:57.29]On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow[03:02.25]And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief[03:06.34]And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die"[03:11.10]And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth[03:17.98]They call me The Wild Rose[03:24.61]But my name was Elisa Day[03:29.26]Why they call me it I do not know[03:36.28]For my name was Elisa Day[03:41.28]My name was Elisa Day[03:45.28]For my name was Elisa Day