[00:00]A lifetime comes and goes
[00:04]And as my friend the rose said only yesterday
[00:12]"This morning I was born
[00:15]And baptised in the dawn
[00:18]I flowered in the dew
[00:21]And life was fresh and new
[00:24]The sun shone through the cold
[00:27]And through the day I grew
[00:29]By night-time I was old"
[00:34]"At least there's never been
[00:38]No, you have never seen
[00:41]A rose more bright and gay"
[00:48]A lifetime comes and goes
[00:50]And as my friend the rose said only yesterday
[00:56]"The good lord smiled on me
[00:59]So why then should it be
[01:01]I feel I'm falling now
[01:04]Oh yes, I'm falling now
[01:06]My heart no-one can save
[01:08]My head begins to bow
[01:11]My feet are in the grave"
[01:15]The rose God smiled upon
[01:18]Tomorrow will be gone
[01:20]Forever gone away
[01:24]A lifetime comes and goes
[01:27]And so my friend the rose was dead at break of day
[01:32]The moon is shining bright
[01:36]And in my dreams tonight
[01:38]Beneath the starlit sky
[01:40]My friend the rose goes by
[01:42]He has seen my dreams I see
[01:45]A soul that wouldn't die
[01:47]Still watching over me
[01:51]Whatever fortune brings
[01:54]I'll hope for better things
[01:56]Or life will just be grey
[02:00]"A lifetime comes and goes"
[02:03]That's what my friend the rose
[02:06]Said only yesterday
[00:04]And as my friend the rose said only yesterday
[00:12]"This morning I was born
[00:15]And baptised in the dawn
[00:18]I flowered in the dew
[00:21]And life was fresh and new
[00:24]The sun shone through the cold
[00:27]And through the day I grew
[00:29]By night-time I was old"
[00:34]"At least there's never been
[00:38]No, you have never seen
[00:41]A rose more bright and gay"
[00:48]A lifetime comes and goes
[00:50]And as my friend the rose said only yesterday
[00:56]"The good lord smiled on me
[00:59]So why then should it be
[01:01]I feel I'm falling now
[01:04]Oh yes, I'm falling now
[01:06]My heart no-one can save
[01:08]My head begins to bow
[01:11]My feet are in the grave"
[01:15]The rose God smiled upon
[01:18]Tomorrow will be gone
[01:20]Forever gone away
[01:24]A lifetime comes and goes
[01:27]And so my friend the rose was dead at break of day
[01:32]The moon is shining bright
[01:36]And in my dreams tonight
[01:38]Beneath the starlit sky
[01:40]My friend the rose goes by
[01:42]He has seen my dreams I see
[01:45]A soul that wouldn't die
[01:47]Still watching over me
[01:51]Whatever fortune brings
[01:54]I'll hope for better things
[01:56]Or life will just be grey
[02:00]"A lifetime comes and goes"
[02:03]That's what my friend the rose
[02:06]Said only yesterday