***************** BLACK ROSE *****************
written by Billy Joe Shaver
performed by Waylon Jennings.


Verse 1:
Way down in Virginia     Amongst the tall grown sugar canes
Lived a simple man with a dime-an-acre hand   And a rose of a different name


Verse 2:
The first time I felt lightnin' ,  I was standing in the drizzling rain
With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin  And a rose of a different name


Chorus:
The devil made me do it the first time  The second time i done it on my own
Lord put a handle on a simple-headed man And help me leave that black rose alone


Verse 3:
When the devil made that woman  Lord he threw the pattern away
She was built for speed with the tools you need  To make a new fool every day


Verse 4:
Way down deep and dirty  On the darker side of shame
There's a cane cuttin' man, gonna do it again  With a rose of a different name


Chorus(x2).