Red Rose

from Songs From The Soul by Maureen Anderson

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lyrics

Red rose, stands alone
He is not coming home!
Fallen in the field, so dark so cold,
None his hand for to hold
Red her petals black her heart...
She and her love torn apart
He’s not coming home
He has died alone
On a foreign shore
He has fallen in the name of war!
Red rose, stands alone
He is not coming home!
Red rose, stands alone
He is not coming home!

He answered to the politicians call
Those who would not choose to fall
He has gone to fight a war
So that there will be no more war
In England there are those who long to hold his hand
They have lost a father, brother, lover and son
This was not how death was meant to come
He was meant to live his life
Bring joy to mother, father, child and wife

Red rose, stands alone
He is not coming home!
She is not a rose at all
But a poppy bearing witness
To where the man did fall
Remembered on the 11th month at the 11th hour of the 11th day
His lifeblood reflected by this simple flower...
Red rose, stands alone
He is not coming home!
Red rose, he stands alone
And he is not coming home...

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from Songs From The Soul, released January 1, 2010

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Hail the King of Cats

Mar 2021
The Hungry Ghosts

Mar 2021
Songs From The Soul

Jan 2010
Jacob's Ladder

Nov 2009
Love's Philosophy

Feb 2009
Looking Glass Ties

Nov 2008
Alchemy

Sep 2008
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead

Sep 2008
Shifting Gear

May 2007
Babylon

Jul 2004
Live Fish

Jun 2003
Messages From Sacred Spaces

Oct 2002
Shaman

Sep 2002
Easier To Feel

Apr 2001
Live at The Physio & Firkin

Apr 2001
Maureen Anderson's Shapeshifter

Mar 2000
25/3/98

Mar 1998
Unwrapping The Familiar

Jul 1997
Godseye

Jul 1995
Afro-Deity

Dec 1993

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