Nettie Green

Here’s a rose for you Nettie Green
Here’s a rose for you though I’ve never seen your face
Lay it down on your place in the ground
Lay it down on your place in the ground

You left this house for the last time
In 1941
With your husband and your daughter
On the train to kingdom come

Here’s a rose for you Nettie Green
Here’s a rose for you though I’ve never seen your face
Lay it down on your place in the ground
Lay it down on your place in the ground

When they took you off around the corner
I was standing looking on
I wanted to call you but my mouth wouldn’t speak
You kept walking on
 
Here’s a rose for you Nettie Green
Here’s a rose for you though I’ve never seen your face
Lay it down on your place in the ground
Lay it down on your place in the ground

Now the trucks are rollin’ by like thunder 
And the world’s an awful busy place
But I wish I had called out to you Nettie
I wish I had seen your face

Here’s a rose for you Nettie Green
Here’s a rose for you though I’ve never seen your face
Lay it down on your place in the ground
Lay it down on your place in the ground
Lay it down on your place in the ground