Name: There Should Be Roses
Duration: 4 min 45 s
Channel: Tommy G
Description: "There Should Be Roses" is a song by Tommy G (509). A song based upon the stage play of the same name by John Williams. A touching song about timeless and undying love.

There Should Be Roses

Tommy G (509)

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A song based upon the stage play of the same name by John Williams. A touching song about timeless and undying love.

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Tommy G (509)

Thomas Gantt, Tom Gantt, Tommy Gantt, Tommy G (509), spokane, 420, 509, acoustic, blues, burnside bridge, cuervo, damn fine time, guitar, hip-hop, jack johnson,

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic General

Charts

#2,839 in subgenre Peak #27

Charts

Peak #88

Author

Tommy G

Rights

2009

Uploaded

May 29, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.4 MB • 128 kbps • 4:45

Story behind the song

I was music director and actor in the play "There Should Be Roses" by John Williams back in 2005. Four days before opening night, I got an inspiration for a song based on the closing scene in the play; one in which the lead character (an 80-plus year old man) is at the grave of his 12-years-departed wife on their 60th wedding anniversary, reminding himself and her of the perfect Sunday afternoon they spent together in the spring of '39. The song lay dormant for about four years after it was performed to open the play each of the eight nights it ran. This year, the song was pulled out of mothballs and performed at a eulogy for my dear friend's father. He and his wife were contemporaries of a slightly later period, so I changed the lyric to the spring of '59 for their sake. This recording was a single take in my studio with Scott and Emily looking on. No studio tricks, purely organic...

Lyrics

Its a perfect Sunday afternoon in the spring of 59
A picnic basket full of love and a bottle of red wine
Theres a hundred-year-old shade tree and a sweet breeze singing softly
Your perfumes hanging on the air, and neither of us with a care
You know I think it might be a good time for a kiss

You see I dont need no money, dont need no fancy cars, no
And I dont want no party, just put that to bed
Cuz there should be roses instead

Thirty years have come and gone, but it seems more like thirty days
Time flies by like 99 and in all the time that youve been mine
Im still helplessly held captive by your gaze
High school graduations, grandkids and congratulations
Our children all have grown and gone
Good Lord, has it really been that long 
since that perfect day way back in 59?

You see I dont need no money, dont need no fancy cars, no
And I dont want no party, just put that to bed
Cuz there should be roses instead

I never saw it coming; I never figured Id have to live without you
Its like someone stole my breath away but they left me breathing anyway
Now all Im doin is just bidin my time
Sixty years tomorrow you and I got married
Youve been gone for twelve long years, 
but I know youre waiting for me, dear
to break these chains and make my way on back to you

You see I dont need no money, dont need no fancy cars, no
And I dont want no party, just put that to bed
Cuz there should be roses

And I dont need no money, dont need no fancy cars, no
And I dont want no party, just put that to bed
Cuz there should be roses instead
There should be roses instead
There should be roses