It Must Have Been The Roses - Grateful Dead

Words and Music by Robert Hunter.



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Annie laid her head down in the roses. She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons in



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her long, brown hair.  I don't know.  Maybe it was the roses.



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All I know, I could not leave her there.



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I don't know.  It must have been the roses; the roses or the ribbons in



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her long, brown hair. I don't know.  Maybe it was the roses.



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All I know, I could not leave her there.



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Ten years the waves rolled the ships home from the sea.

One pane of glass in the window.



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I'm thinking well, how it may blow in all good company.

No one is complaining, though.  Come in and shut the door.



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If I tell another what your own lips told to me,

Faded is the crimson from the ribbons that she wore,





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let me lay 'neath the roses and my eyes no longer see.

and it's strange how no one comes 'round anymore.





Thanks to the original poster.



Peace,

Paul Z