The Legend Of The Christmas Rose

Red Sovine



(Merry Christmas, Red.)

Merry Christmas girls...



Say by the way did you ever hear of the story

How the Christmas rose came to be?

(No,)



There's a story I must tell you

Not to many knows how it goes

It began upon first Chistmas night

It's the legend of the Christmas Rose.



Well, it was a long, long time ago

And from the East there came three Wise Men

Bearing gifts they'd brought from afar

They had traveled for a long, long way

With their guiding light a brilliant star.



And in the distant stood a little shepard girl

Who's eyes were sad, for she had no gift to offer to the child

And as her tears fell to the ground

White roses started growing there

And when she placed them by the babe in the manger

It seemed He smiled.



As his fingers touched the pedal

A pale shade of pink there appeared

Just at Christmas time this flower grows

That the legend of the Christmas Rose.



(The Legend Of The Christmas Rose.)

Merry Christmas...