Don't Step On Mother's Roses Lyrics

We all were called to come back
To the old home on the farm
Mother's pa*sed away, what a mournful day
And as my daddy watched
His eyes were filled with pain and hurt
When someone stepped upon a rose
And crushed it in the dirt

"Don't step on Mother's roses," Daddy cried
"She planted them the day she was my bride
And every time I see a rose, I see her smilin' face
She made my darkest days look bright
'Round the old home place"

"Don't step on Mother's roses, let 'em grow
The way they did since many years ago
They'll bloom for me each year
And I'll have Mother near
Don't step on Mother's roses, let 'em grow"

Years have pa*sed away
And how the old home place has changed
Daddy had to go, we all miss him so
Children pick the roses as they go along the way
But when their petals are abused, I hear my daddy say

"Don't step on Mother's roses," Daddy cried
"She planted them the day she was my bride
And every time I see a rose, I see her smilin' face
She made my darkest days look bright
'Round the old home place"

"Don't step on Mother's roses, let 'em grow
The way they did since many years ago
They'll bloom for me each year
And I'll have Mother near
Don't step on Mother's roses, let 'em grow"

Johnny Cash - Songs of Our Soil

Aug 2002

1. Drink To Me
2. Five Feet High and Rising
3. Man On The Hill
4. Hank And Joe And Me
5. Clementine
6. The Great Speckle Bird
7. I Want To Go Home
8. The Caretaker
9. Old Apache Squaw
10. Don't Step On Mother's Roses
11. My Grandfather's Clock
12. It Could Be You (Instead Of Him)
13. I Got Stripes
14. You Dreamer You (Bonus Track)