We all were called to come back to the old home on the farm
Don't step on mother's roses, daddy cried
Don't step on mother's roses, let them grow
Years have passed away, and how the old homeplace had changed
Don't step on mother's roses, daddy cried
Don't step on mother's roses, let them grow
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mother passed away, what a mournful day
and as my daddy watched, his eyes were filled with pain and hurt
when someone stepped upon a rose and crushed it in the dirt
she planted them the day she was my bride
and every time I see a rose, I see her smiling face
she made my darkest days look bright, around the old homeplace
the way they did since many years ago
they'll bloom for me each year, and I'll have mother near
don't step on mother's roses, let them grow
daddy had to go, we all miss him so
children pick the roses as they go along the way
but when their petals are abused, I hear my daddy say
she planted them the day she was my bride
and every time I see a rose, I see her smiling face
she made my darkest days look bright, around the old homeplace
the way they did since many years ago
they'll bloom for me each year, and I'll have mother near
don't step on mother's roses, let them grow
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