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Your Rose Garden

by Alexis Harte

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The New Deal in our backyard

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All the girls in my rose garden
Park far away and wander down in heels
Taking pictures with their lovers,
They’ve been coming here for 90 years
With gin and juice for 90 years

Take you back to ‘33, families sleeping on the streets
Same mean and dirty streets, same as today.
But they gave ‘em jobs with decent pay,
8 million ways to pull their weight
Not a giveaway, they built you a rose garden

All the kids down in the playground, they’re so perfectly arranged
They're all thinking about that big slide, and will they be afraid
…..that they might not make the grade

Take you back to ‘33, families sleeping on the streets
Same mean and dirty streets, same as today,
Kids will need a place to play, air to breath and a hideaway
They can hideaway, its their rose garden

All the Girls in my Rose Garden,
They know Fame's so Easy on the Eye
Look at Bewitched, Bettie Boop, she's dancing in a Moonlight, Stiletto, State of Grace

T’was a King’s Ransom on Opening Night, but Mr. Lincoln was off on a Mayflower, Roman Holiday,
with The American Beauty….Marilyn Monroe.

So Remember Me, Sentimental Trumpeter when that Knockout punch brings me Peace

I see old friends in my rose garden ,
They all come back to say their goodbyes
To their parents, friends, and lovers,
To the petals from the vine.

Take you back to 33, families sleeping on the streets
Same mean and dirty streets, cold and angry streets,
Same as today, same as today....

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Personnel
Alexis Harte: vocals, acoustic guitar
Gawain Matthews: acoustic and electric guitars, piano dobro, bass,
accordion, percussion
Megan Slankard: vocals
Andrea Vancura: trumpet, trombone


Words and Music: Alexis Harte
Mixed by: Marc Daniel Nelson
Co-Produced by: Alexis Harte/Gawain Matthews

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Alexis Harte San Francisco, California

Alexis Harte is a Peabody and Annie Awards-winning singer-songwriter and composer.

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