Within my prison cell so dreary   Alone I sit with weary heart    Thinkin' of my lonely darlin'    From her forever, I must part       A rose she sent me as a token    She sent it just to light'n my gloom    To tell me that her heart was broken    To cheer me before I meet my doom      She wrote I took it from the garden   Where once we wandered side by side    But now you hold no hope of pardon   And I can never be your bride       The judge would not believe my story    The jury said I had to pay    But to the rose in all its glory    "Not guilty" is all that I can say       Goodbye, sweetheart, for in the morning    I'll meet my Maker and repose    And when I die at daylight's dawnin'    Against my heart they'll find your rose