Wild Rose lyrics

I could have done it easy Gone down this road in style I could’ve had the diamonds And bought them with a smile I might have been the Lady Of as upright millionaire Coulda done it easy But it would not have been fair In my heart I always knew What I was meant to be And in a stately mansion I never could be free So I forsook the diamonds And all the pretty clothes And I chose the life instead Of a Wild and Ramblin’ Rose Oh, but out here on the fringes Where the wayward breezes blow There are places where a cultivated flower Could never grow I have put down roots amongst the rocks Heaven only knows I have always been a Wild Rose Mama cried the day I left She did not understand How I could ever make it In this world without a man But Daddy he just smiled at me ‘Cause deep down in his soul He knew the sun would shine upon A Wild and Ramblin’ Rose Oh, but out here on the fringes Where the wayward breezes blow There are places where a cultivated flower Could never grow I have put down roots amongst the rocks Heaven only knows I have always been a Wild Rose I have always been a Wild Rose