Rose in Paradise-Midday Sun

[ti:Rose in Paradise] [ar:Midday Sun] [al:A Tribute to Waylon Jennings] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rose in Paradise - Midday Sun [00:11.97]She was a flower for the takin' [00:14.95] [00:17.41]Her beauty cut just like a knife [00:19.99] [00:22.99]He was a banker from Macon [00:25.55] [00:28.23]He swore he'd love her all a his life [00:30.88] [00:33.81]He bought her a mansion on the mountain [00:36.35] [00:38.78]With a formal garden and a lot a land [00:41.27] [00:44.03]But paradise became her prison [00:47.10] [00:49.38]That Georgia banker was a jealous man [00:51.67] [00:55.07]Every time he'd talk about her [00:57.85] [01:00.02]You could see the fire in his eyes [01:04.08]He'd say "I would walk through hell on Sunday [01:08.36] [01:10.99]To keep my rose in paradise" [01:13.22] [01:16.25]He hired a man to tend the garden [01:19.00] [01:21.31]And keep an eye on her while he was gone [01:23.80] [01:26.66]Some say they ran away together [01:29.56] [01:31.92]Some say that gardener left alone [01:34.58] [01:37.78]Now the banker is an old man [01:40.82] [01:42.78]That mansion's crumbling down [01:45.25] [01:48.32]He sits all day and he stares at the garden [01:51.06] [01:53.37]Not a trace of her was ever found [01:55.79] [01:59.01]Every time he'd talks about her [02:01.80] [02:03.71]You could see the fire in his eyes [02:08.05]He'd say "I would walk through hell on Sunday [02:12.37] [02:15.17]To keep my rose in paradise" [02:17.32] [02:20.10]Now there's a rose out in the garden [02:22.91] [02:25.37]It's beauty cuts just like a knife [02:28.02] [02:30.85]They say that it even grows in the winter time [02:33.79] [02:36.02]And blooms in the dead of the night