Black Rose-Black 47

[ti:Black Rose] [ar:Black 47] [al:Home Of The Brave] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Black Rose - Black 47 [00:15.43]Mister Frankie Diamond was my best friend [00:17.86]We were partners in a business down on C and 7th [00:20.30] [00:20.99]Nothin' ever got this good brother down [00:23.14]He was a real live wire in an electric town [00:25.25] [00:25.82]Frankie started hangin' with an uptown girl [00:28.05] [00:29.00]A Harlem lady in the social whirl [00:30.66] [00:31.88]On Saturday night he'd put on his best clothes [00:33.94] [00:34.49]And go out steppin' with his Black Rose [00:36.32] [00:41.98]Now Frankie went upstate for a couple of years [00:44.84]A guest of the nation and he was in tears [00:47.12] [00:47.90]He called me up he said "Hey friend of mine [00:50.16]I got one favor to ask you while I'm doin' my time" [00:52.46] [00:53.39]She's the Queen of New York City [00:54.92] [00:56.11]She bewitch all men soul [00:57.45] [00:58.62]She the blood that flow right through me [01:00.67] [01:01.38]So don't be messin' with my Black Rose [01:03.18] [01:04.02]Keep your hands off my Black Rose [01:06.06]My Black Rose he don't own ya [01:09.55] [01:20.21]While Frankie was upstate his Harlem girl [01:22.79]Continued to spiral in her social whirl [01:24.93] [01:25.57]So I paged her from my gig on East 7th I said [01:28.54]"Hey babe you doin' anythin' 'round about 11 " [01:30.60]She said "Uh uh" in her uptown voice [01:33.41] [01:34.10]So we met at Beirut for cocktails and ice [01:36.63]When she crossed that room in her tight red dress [01:39.21]I wasn't thinkin' of Frankie I have to confess [01:41.69] [01:47.15]She said "Hey best friend let's go back to my place [01:50.10]I need to fix my mascara and remodel my face" [01:52.23] [01:52.88]But it rained on the way back to her house [01:55.36]And when she closed the door she took off her blouse [01:57.73] [01:58.59]She's the Queen of New York City [02:00.21] [02:01.24]She bewitch all men soul [02:02.95] [02:03.87]Next thing I know I'm whisperin' sweet nothin's [02:05.95] [02:06.60]Lyin' in bed with my Black Rose [02:08.29] [02:09.08]I'm makin' love to my Black [02:10.79]My Black Rose he don't own ya [02:14.80] [02:16.95]So stay with me tonight [02:20.70] [02:47.23]At nights I'd lie there and listen to her breathe [02:49.85]With the sweat on my brow [02:51.36]How could she sleep [02:52.44]So deep so sweet as calm as a rock [02:55.17]While I pushed back the seconds oozing from the clock [02:57.36] [02:57.99]Now the letters I wrote Frankie returned unread [02:59.99] [03:00.88]The word leaked out I'd be better off dead [03:02.87] [03:03.53]But in the crimson dawn Black Rose would unfold [03:05.71] [03:06.58]And drain all the poison from my soul [03:08.25] [03:14.16]Now I'm standin' up here on forty deuce [03:15.98] [03:16.76]Another terminal man waitin' for his bus [03:19.19] [03:20.12]Here come Frankie with his head all shaved [03:22.44]Is that a piece in his pocket or is it a blade [03:25.39]Now I'm lyin' face down in the terminal dirt [03:27.26] [03:27.93]With a hole in my chest but I don't feel no hurt [03:30.74]I don't wanna go to heaven I been there before [03:33.28]Just spent two years in paradise with my Black Rose [03:35.51] [03:36.57]She's the Queen of New York City [03:38.04] [03:39.14]She bewitch all men soul [03:40.62] [03:41.69]When you go and find her body [03:43.23] [03:44.36]Bury me next to my Black Rose [03:46.11] [03:47.12]Still in love with my Black Rose [03:48.65] [03:49.68]She's up in heaven now my Black Rose [03:51.56] [03:52.42]You won't be makin' love to my Black [03:54.31]My Black Rose he don't own ya [03:57.96] [03:59.79]So stay with me tonight for the rest of your life [04:08.81] [04:16.70]Roisin Dubh me no can get over you [04:19.27]A time is in me mind no matter what I do [04:21.98]Roisin Dubh me no can get over you [04:23.87] [04:24.65]Now Frankie comin' back and I know that I am through [04:27.29]Mister Frankie Diamond tell me do the right thing [04:29.71] [04:30.60]Watch his girl while he away at Sing Sing [04:32.52] [04:33.26]But me and Rosie we have a little fling [04:35.81]Now Frankie comin' home wicked trouble it will bring [04:38.04] [04:39.21]Wicked trouble it will bring [04:40.39] [04:41.20]LoRoisin dhubh me no can get over you [04:43.45] [04:43.97]A time is in me mind no matter what I do [04:46.69]Roisin dhubh me no can get over you [04:49.47]Now frankie comin' back and I know that I am through [04:52.09] [04:52.73]Lord have mercy