(Taped December 2, 1970) Season 2, Episode 11 of the Johnny Cash Show. This is different from the one I posted previously. Same year and season but different episode.
I think I was 11 years old the first time I heard this song and fell in love with The Statler Brothers. I don't have all their albums but I have around 15 or 16 including several with all their signatures.
Makes me feel old seeing how young they are in this clip. Watched them every week on the Johnny Cash Show. Even got to see a live performance of the show in the Rayman Auditorium back in 1970. Also saw them in concert a few years before they retired.
"Ah, do you remember these?" Sure do, some of the first memories of listening to music I have as a small child in the 70s. And voices like these are truly like a fine wine, only getting better as WE age. So sad to see Harold Reid passed last year - but his voice will live on forever.
She was called a scarlet woman by the people Who would go to church but left me in the streets With no parents of my own I never had a home And a eighteen year old boy has got to eat She found me outside one Sunday morning Begging money from a man I didn't know She took me in and wiped away my childhood A woman of the streets this lady Rose This bed of Rose's that I lay on where I was taught to be a man This bed of Rose's where I'm living is the only kind of life I'll understand She was a handsome woman just thirty-five who was spoken to in town by very few She managed a late evening business like most of the town wished they could do I learned all the things that a man should know From a woman not approved of I suppose She died knowing someone really loved her from life's bramble bush I picked a rose This bed of Rose's This bed of Rose's
