One Red Rose - Iris DeMent

I don't care What the people may say 'Cause it's just the sun Rising again So I'll take a trip To the back of my mind See what is there What will I find You've got trouble searching for you And you said "Everything will be the same" Look here, everything is gonna change And you said "It's what I needed" I don't believe it I don't care What the people may say Point out my flaws I already know So I'll drive away Back to the heart Of where I grew up Back to the start 'Cause you've got trouble searching for you And you said "Everything will be the same" Look here, everything is gonna change And you said "It's what I needed" I don't believe it Take what you wanted Leave what you didn't need Take what you wanted Leave what you didn't need Take what you wanted Leave what you didn't need Take what you wanted Leave what you didn't need Take what you wanted Leave what you didn't need Take what you wanted Leave what you didn't need Take what you wanted Leave what you didn't need Take what you want Leave what you didn't need (Take, leave) (Take, leave) (Take, leave) Take what you wanted Leave what you didn't need

I'm tired of this dirty old city Entirely too much work and never enough play And I'm tired of these dirty old sidewalks I think I'll walk off my steady job today Chorus: So turn me loose, set me free Somewhere in the middle of Montana Gimme all I've got coming to me And keep your retirement And your, so called, social security Big City turn me loose and set me free I've been working every day since I was twenty I ain't got a thing to show for anything I've done Some folks never work and they've got plenty I think it's time girls like me had some fun (Chorus) Big City turn me loose and set me free

And you know the sun's settin' fast, And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts. Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye, But hold on to your lover, 'Cause your heart's bound to die. Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town, Goodnight. Up the street beside that red neon light, That's where I met my baby on one hot summer night. He was the tender and I ordered a beer, It's been forty years and I'm still sitting here. But you know the sun's settin' fast, And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts. Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye, But hold on to your lover, 'Cause your heart's bound to die. Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town, Goodnight. It's here I had my babies and I had my first kiss. I've walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist. Over there is where I bought my first car. It turned over once but then it never went far. And I can see the sun's settin' fast, And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts. Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye, But hold on to your lover, 'Cause your heart's bound to die. Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town, Goodnight. I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa. They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall. I bring them flowers about every day, But I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say. If they could see how the sun's settin' fast, And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts. Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye, But hold on to your lover, 'Cause your heart's bound to die. Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town, Goodnight. Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightning-bugs fly. But I can't see too good, I got tears in my eyes. I'm leaving tomorrow but I don't wanna go. I love you, my town, you'll always live in my soul. But I can see the sun's settin' fast, And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts. Well, go on, I gotta kiss you goodbye, But I'll hold to my lover, 'Cause my heart's 'bout to die. Go on now and say goodbye to my town, to my town. I can see the sun has gone down on my town, on my town, Goodnight. Goodnight.

She grew up plain and simple in a farming town Her daddy played the fiddle and use to do the calling when they had hoedowns She said the neighbors would come And they'd move all my grandma's furniture 'round And there'd be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor Dancing to a country sound The Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favourite songs And on Saturday nights there was a radio show And she would sing along And I'll never forget her face when she revealed to me That she'd dreamed about singing at The Grand Ol' Opry Her eyes, oh how they sparkled when she sang those songs While she was hanging the clothes on the line I was a kid just a humming along Well, I'd be playing in the grass, To her what might've seemed obliviously But there ain't no doubt about it, she sure made her mark on me She played old gospel records on the phonograph She turned them up loud and we'd sing along But those days have passed Just now that I am older it occurs to me That I was singing in the grandest opry And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me 'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour's face I see So I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World below But I know He'll Pilot Me 'til it comes time to go Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me As the sound of my Mama's Opry And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me 'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour's face I see So I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World below But I know He'll Pilot Me 'til it comes time to go Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me As the sound of my Mama's Opry

There'll be laughter even after you're gone I'll find reasons to face that empty dawn Cause I've memorized each line in your face And not even death can ever erase The story they tell to me I'll miss you Oh, how I'll miss you I'll dream of you And I'll cry a million tears But the sorrow will pass And the one thing that will last Is the love that you've given to me There'll be laughter even after you're gone I'll find reasons and I'll face that empty dawn Cause I've memorized each line in your face And not even death could ever erase The story they tell to me