It Must Have Been the Roses

One pane of glass in the window
I don't know, maybe it was the roses

Thinkin' well how it may blow in all good company
And it's strange how no one comes round any more
If I tell another what your own lips told to me
All I know I could not leave her there

I don't know, it must have been the roses

I don't know, maybe it was the roses
The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair
Annie laid her head down in the roses
Ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea
I don't know, it must have been the roses
No one is complaining, no, come in and shut the door

I don't know, maybe it was the roses
All I know I could not leave her there
Let me lay 'neath the roses and my eyes no longer see
All I know I could not leave her there
She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons, in her long brown hair
All I know I could not leave her there
The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair
Faded is the crimson from the ribbons that she wore
I don't know, maybe it was the roses
I don't know, maybe it was the roses
I don't know, it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair