There’s an old man standing by a pond
Smiling like the world could do no wrong
Cool water runs against his toes
As he holds the petals of a yellow rose

Years ago in Central Park
He and his woman disappeared in the dark
And underneath the city’s glow
They left the petals of a yellow rose

Chorus:
So would you be my, my yellow rose
Would you stand beside me when the wild wind blows
I’m only asking cause I, I’d like to know
Oh, would you be my Yellow Rose

They came in on a Jersey train
He took her hand and said, “I love you Jane.”
She saw the passing of a garden’s row
And said, “I’d be yours if I had one of those.”

Chorus 2:
So would you be my Yellow Rose
Would you wake beside me in the morning glow
I’m only asking cause I’d like to know
Would you be my Yellow Rose

The water is still, and the woman is gone
But the old man ain’t moving on
Cause there are moments when all you need
Is a cool pond and a memory

Chorus 1

Chorus 2

Verse I
Sometimes I go walking through the long tall grass
Wonder how long hard times will last
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For this backward soul on a road that god knows where
As hard as I try ain”t left no track
It”s not enough to find my way back
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I hit the ground like broken glass and just lay there

Chorus
Singing why me, oh why me
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And I throw another empty bottle up against the wall
And I say why me, oh why me
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But pitty never ever did me any kinda good at all
So I walk on

Verse II
And I wound up on the capital steps
Watching the lobbyists smoking cigarettes
As They compare their shoes and their country club dues And who got who by the short hairs
Standing there in their high dollar suits
Looking down at my tattered old jeans and boots
And this weathered guitar that seems to follow me everywhere God it follows me everywhere

Chorus
Playing why me, oh why me
All I got”s another song about how money makes and breaks the law
And I sing why me, oh why me
I”m just a broke troubadore with a bark for the underdog
So I walk on

Bridge
D, C, D, C

Verse III
Now I ain”t Jesus, but I can relate
To a man looking death square in the face
Even he hit his knees with a plea in the garden of gethsemane
To his holy father he raised his eyes
In his darkest hours he cried
Please would you take this cup from me

Chorus
Praying why me, oh why me
Knowing all the while he had to carry that cross and hang there
When I say why me, oh me
I know that somewhere up in heaven there”s a big old book with my name there
So I walk on, I rock on
Even when I”m singing, why me, I rock on
Even when I”m singing, why me, I rock on
Even when I”m singing, why me

Chords: G – 330023
Cadd9 – 330230
Gmaj7 – 330002
Bmaug5 – 330020
G6th – 330200

Chorus:
’Cause every highway bears a bright sign, posted on the side of a roaring world
And every passerby rolls back again, and in the end, you get what you’re looking for
So just give me my good friends, And a good hearted woman
Just give me some high times to fall back on
Sometimes I might need a cool drink and the good Lord to save me
Then I will be found, then I will be found

Ran out of gas on the freeway, ‘bout a quarter mile from Abilene
That Texas sun just-a hung in the sky, smiling on me
A stranger stopped named Casey, said he’s a friend of a friend of mine
He said, “It shore is a small world.” I said, “It suits me just fine.”

Chorus

Well they put me in a jail cell before a race in Bristol, Tennessee
Don’t you go to Sully County if you want to be free
But there are two ways you can take things, you can make them right or keep them wrong
So I kept my mouth closed and played Dominoes ‘til the judge sent me home

Chorus

So just give me my good friends
And a good hearted woman
Just give me some high times to fall back on
Sometimes I might need a strong drink
And the good Lord to save me
Then I will be found, I will be found

Chorus:
I watch the sunset falling down
I hear the voices coming through this overcrowded town
And yes, I know that time it flies by so fast
you better find yourself something that lasts

There is just not enough time to hold onto the past
It either makes you bitter or keeps you looking back
But if you need someone to help you in moving on
I have a will to make right what has been goin’ wrong
What you need it will be coming around
yes, I will bring it back somehow

Chorus

If this web could be broken, don’t you think I would
But I am just a fly caught in this neighborhood
These streets are cracked and scattered and baked beyond belief
One day I’ll shake myself free and step out from the heat
What you need it will be coming around
Yes, I will bring it out somehow

Chorus

Tide keeps creeping, squeezing me to row
Sad surrender of the summertime of my soul
Water will you wash me down and away
Carry me home to the place where I need to lay
Carry you there and halfway here again
Trying to freeze-frame, when the second hand seems to spin
I wonder can you tell me how
To keep on flowing to then from now

Chorus:
There’s a quiet and a rest, it ain’t that bad, but far from the best
And my dream keeps getting pulled away from me
And the time I wait will be my time to tell, if I’m walking blind or if I’m running well
And my dream keeps getting pulled away from me

Rain crash harder, leave a ripple on my front page
Flood rise higher to drown out my age
Wave break down over me
Send me walking to where I need to be

Chorus

Solo (Acoustic)

Chorus

Solo Outro

Capo 2

When your in a hole it’s a hard time getting out
there’s a few bad men full of bread and grins who don’t want you on their cloud
and if your asking for a hand one’ll give you one that will push you back in place
and it’s the same hand that pays the man who’s running FM waves

When you outside they like you looking in
And they’ll drink champagne to the window pane were they find a thousand peeking in
And even if you don’t want to sell your tune they might take it from you anyway
And you’ll fell wronged when you hear your song being shattered over FM waves

My hero’s are not cowboys they’re the ones who sing about them
Not caring if they’re paid or have a place to lay their head
Cause though the lawyers come and go a good song never greys
No you’ll never know from radio but there’s gold under FM Waves

So mister big wig no I wouldn’t want to take your place
Because I don’t want to find your ? when I’m looking for a saving grace
And you can’t always close your ears because one day my voice will fade away
But there will always be a bunch like me playing music under FM waves

Chorus 2x

Strange how a band with such promise and songs like this could sell out so easily.