[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:02.86]Little Rosa was her name and still I cry in vain [00:13.03]My word won't be the same [00:17.38]Since she's gone from me [00:24.98]I have gone [00:25.89]To visit the grave of a friend of mine and as [00:29.35]I walked through the grave yard [00:31.58]I noticed this man kneeling down [00:33.39]By the grave of a child [00:35.36]And in his hand he held a big red rose [00:39.05]And tears were streaming down his cheeks [00:42.37]I walked over and laid a hand on his shoulder [00:44.78]And started to talk to him [00:46.96]And during the course of our conversation [00:49.99]And in his broken English [00:52.16]This is the story just as he told it to me [00:56.37]He said to me mister [00:57.37]I've walked down the street today [00:58.95]And I passed about the big flower shop [01:02.18]I walked in and I asked the man in the shop [01:04.52]I said boss how much is for one red rose [01:08.55]Then he looked at me with one big frown [01:11.21]And he says it's one dollar please [01:13.87]But in a buying buyer [01:15.34]Was well dressed blonde young lady walked in [01:18.10]And she says how much is for one red rose [01:21.34]And he looked at her with one big smile [01:24.03]And he says ten cents [01:26.20]Now I said boss how come to you [01:27.70]To charge me a dollar for the rose [01:30.31]And you charged the young lady only ten cents [01:33.63]Then he said look mister you [01:35.48]Tell me why you want the rose [01:36.77]And maybe I give it to you for not [01:40.01]I said boss I'm a hard working man [01:42.84]Working a railroad and only make three dollars a day [01:46.41]And I got a little girl and her name was rosa o [01:50.43]Rosa's just about this high boss [01:53.41]Every day when I'd come home from the work [01:55.68]A little rosa come running to meet her papa [01:58.35]And she'd throw her little arms around [01:59.70]My neck and say papa and I'd say rosa [02:03.33]But one day boss I've come home from [02:05.39]The work I don't see rosa [02:07.36]I looked down by the railroad track [02:09.01]And I see one big crowd I'd go down and [02:11.76]I pushed the crowd this a way [02:13.26]And pushed the crowd that a way [02:15.93]There was at my feet lay my little rosa and that's why [02:20.18]I want the rose boss I wanna put it on little rosa's grave [02:25.33]Then man he didn't say not [02:27.69]But he picked the biggest and the reddest rose [02:30.69]And he gave it to me [02:32.45]And I said thank you boss thank you very much [02:37.90]And though she's gone [02:40.90]You see she's still the world to me [02:47.87]To me she'll always be that little girl of mine