[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.48]Little Rosa was her name and still I cry in vain [00:13.94]My world won't be the same since she's gone from me [00:30.08]I have gone to visit the grave of a friend of mine and as I walked thru the grave yard [00:37.64]I noticed this man kneeling down by the grave of a child [00:42.94]And in his hand he held a big red rose and tears were streaming down his cheeks [00:50.37]I walked over and laid a hand on his shoulder and started to talk to him [00:55.30]And during the course of our conversation and in his broken English [01:02.10]This is the story just as he told it to me [01:07.62]He said to me Mister I've walked down the street on today [01:10.38]And I passed about the big flower shop [01:14.33]I walked in and I asked the man in the shop I said boss how much is for one red rose [01:20.99]Then he looked at me with one bigger smile and he says it's one dollar please [01:26.53]But in a buyin' buyer was well dressed blonde lady walked in [01:30.91]And she says how much is for one red rose [01:34.82]And he looked at her with one bigger smile and he says it's ten cents [01:39.83]Now I said boss how come to you to charge me a dollar for the rose [01:44.13]And charged the young lady only ten cents [01:47.58]When he says look Mister you tell me why you want the rose [01:51.48]And maybe I give it to you for not [01:55.55]I said boss I'm a hard working man working a railroad and gonna make too much money [02:03.45]And I got a little girl and her name was Rosa Rosa's just about this high boss [02:12.26]Every day when I'd come home from the work [02:14.61]A little Rosa come running to meet her papa [02:17.31]And she'd throw her little arms around my neck and say papa and I'd say Rosa [02:24.82]But one day boss I've come home from the work I don't see Rosa [02:29.97]I looked down by the railroad track and I see one big crowd [02:34.18]I'd go down and I pushed the crowd this a way and pushed the crowd that a way [02:38.90]There boss at my feet lay my little Rosa and that's why I want the rose boss [02:48.13]I wanna put it on little Rosa's grave [02:51.94]Then man he didn't say not but he picked the biggest and the reddest rose [02:58.40]And he gave it to me [03:01.26]And I said thank you boss thank you very much [03:14.99]And though she's gone you see she's still the world to me [03:29.36]To me she'll always be that little girl of mine