Billy's Rose [George R. Sims]-Kenneth Williams
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TXT Billy's Rose [George R. Sims]-Kenneth Williams 文本歌词
Billy's Rose - Kenneth Williams
Billy's dead and gone to glory
So has Billy's sister Nell
There's a tale I know about them were
I poet I would tell
Soft it comes with perfume laden like
A breath of country air
Wafted down that filthy alley bringing fragrant odours there
In that vile and filthy alley long ago one Winter's day
Dying quick of want and fever hapless patient Billy lay
While beside him sat his sister
In the garret's dismal gloom
Cheering with her gentle presence
Billy's pathway to the tomb
Many a tale of elf and fairy did she tell the dying child
Till his eyes lost half their anguish and his worn
Wan features smiled
Tales herself she heard hap-hazard
Caught amid the Babel roar
Lisped about by tiny gossips playing round their mother's door
Then she felt his wasted fingers tighten feebly as she told
How beyond this dismal alley lay a land of shining gold
Where when all the pain was over
When all the tears were shed
He would be a white frocked angel
With a gold thing on his head
Then she told some garbled story of a kind-eyed Savior's love
How he built for little children great big playgrounds up above
Where they sang and played at hop-scotch and at horses
All the day
And where the beadles or policemen never frightened them away
This was Nell's idea of heaven
Just a bit of what she'd heard
With a little bit invented with a little bit inferred
But her brother lay and listened and he seemed to understand
For he closed his eyes and murmured
He could see the Promised Land
Yes he whispered I can see it
I can see it sister Nell
Oh the children look so happy they are all so strong and well
I can see them there with Jesus
He is playing with them too
Let us run away and join them
If there's room for me and you
She was eight this little maiden
And her life had all been spent
In the garret and the alley
Where they starved to pay the rent
When a drunken father's curses and a drunken mother's blows
Drove her forth into the gutter from
The day's dawn to its close
But she knew enough this outcast
Just to tell the sinking boy
You must die before you are able
All these blessings to enjoy
You must die she whispered
Billy I am not even ill
But I will come to you dear brother
Yes I promise that I will
You are dying little brother
You are dying oh so fast
I heard father say to mother that he knew you couldn't last
They will put you in a coffin then you'll wake
And be up there
While I am left alone to suffer in
This garret bleak and bare
Yes I know it answered Billy
Ah sister I do not mind
Gentle Jesus will not beat me
He's not cruel or unkind
But I can't help thinking
Nelly I should like to take away
Something sister that you gave me
I might look at every day
In the Summer you remember how the mission took us out
To that great green lovely meadow
Where we played and ran about
And the van that took us halted
By a bright green patch of land
Where the fine red blossoms grew dear
Half as big as mother's hand
Nell I asked the good kind teacher
What they called such flowers as those
That he told me that I remember
The pretty name was rose
I have never seen them since
Dear how I wish that I had one
Just to keep and think of you dear
When I am up beyond the sun
Not a word spoke little Nelly
But at night when Billy slept
On she flung her scanty garments
And then down the stairs she crept
Through the silent streets of
London running nimbly as a fawn
Running on and running ever till
The night had changed to dawn
When the foggy sun had risen
And the mist had cleared away
All around her wrapped in snowdrift
There the open country lay
She was tired her limbs were frozen
And the roads had cut her feet
But there came no flowery gardens
Her poor tearful eyes to greet
She had found the road by asking
She had learnt the way to go
She had found the cruel meadow
It was wrapped in cruel snow
Not a buttercup or daisy not a single verdant blade
Showed its head above its prison
Then she knelt her down and prayed
With her eyes up cast to heaven
Down she sank upon the ground
And she prayed to God to tell her
Where the roses might be found
Then the cold blast numbed her senses
And her sight grew strangely dim
And a sudden awful tremor seem to seize her every limb
Oh rose she moaned good Jesus
Just a rose to take to Bill
And as she prayed a chariot came thundering down the hill
A lady sat there toying with a red rose rare and sweet
As she passed she flung it from her
And it fell at Nelly's feet
Just a word her lord had spoken caused her ladyship to fret
And the rose had been his present
So she flung it in a pet
But the poor half blinded Nelly
Thought it had fallen from the skies
And she murmured
Thank you Jesus as she clasped the dainty prize
Lo that night from out the alley did
A child's soul pass away
From dirt and sin and misery to
Where God's children play
Lo that night a wild fierce snowstorm
Burst in fury over the land
And at morn they found Nell frozen
With the red rose in her hand
Billy's dead and gone to glory
So has Billy's sister Nell
Am I bold to say this happened in
The land where angels dwell
That the children met in heaven after
All their earthly woes
And that Nelly kissed her brother and said
Billy here's your rose
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