It Must Have Been the Roses - Grateful Dead

Annie laid her head down in the roses

She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons

In her long brown hair

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

All I know is I could not leave her there

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

The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair

I don’t know, maybe it was the roses

All I know was I could not leave her there

Ten years the waves rolled the

Ships home from the sea

Thinking well how it may blow

In all good company

If I tell another what

Your own lips told to me

Let me lay neath the roses

Let my eyes no longer see

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

The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair

I don’t know, maybe it was the roses

All I know was I could not leave her there

One pane of glass in the window

No one is complaining though

Come in and shut the door

Faded is the crimson from the

Ribbons that she wore

And it’s strange how no one

Comes round anymore

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

The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair

I don’t know, maybe it was the roses

All I know was I could not leave her there

Annie laid her head down in the roses

She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons

In her long brown hair

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

All I know is I could not leave her there

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

The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair

I don’t know, maybe it was the roses

All I know was I could not leave her there