Silas J. Dirge – Flowers On Her Grave lyrics

Rosie had a troubled mind
Engaged to Jim, he was the murderous kind
She left him at the altar and he had killed for less
He buried her in her wedding dress

Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
On her wedding day

But Jim, in a melancholic wave
Took his guitar to play at her grave
‘t Was a year to the day and remorseful Jim
Was found hanging by a guitar string

Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
On her wedding day

One year some cattle grazed near her stone
The spooked wrangler passed out and broke his bones
He came by arms and legs tied to four of his cows
One pulled east, one west, one north and one south

Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
On her wedding day

They once tried to dig old Rosie up
To take her far away and make this thing stop
Three men armed with shovels, they never came home
Since then there’s four names written on her stone

Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
On her wedding day
On her wedding day
On her wedding day
On her wedding day