NO BEAUTIFUL ROSE HERE

Hush nah child

Hush ya cryin’

Ain’t no need a sheddin’

tears if da ones gotcha

bleeding em’ ain’t gon’ feel

da flesh dey tearin' up              

                                                    

Hush nah child

All dat wailin’

ain’t gonna change nothin’

Yo tears

ain’t gonna change dem sayin’

she beautiful,

cuz she is

And ain’t no need you cryin’

cuz dey say you ain’t beautiful,

cuz you ain’t!

 

Hush nah child!

Ain’t no need you cryin’

cuz you ain’t beautiful

You should be happier than

a fattened up skeetah

feedin’ off a fattened up gal!

 

See baby,

dere is plenty a beautiful girls

in dis world

and beautiful is da word dey use

for dem all

cuz ain’t nothin’ else

dey can call em’

And when you use da same word

to tell bout’ da same thing all da time,

dat thing becomes what dey call common

 

But you baby…da word beautiful

don’t come near close

to what you be

You be what dey call “fascinating”

I learned dat word when

I wuz a young girl,

bout’ yo age, when

me and daddy saw this blue, kinda purplish

looking flower, look like a rose, sproutin’ up

right center of da cotton field

Now, I thought she wuz beautiful

sitting in the middle of all dat dirt,

but daddy said

all dat dirt wuz surrounding her

cuz she wuz “fascinating”;

a kinda beautiful

ain’t nobody and nothin’ eva seen befo’

 

So see baby,

no, you ain’t beautiful,

you fascinating

just like dat rose

me and daddy saw dat day

And fascinating means

you da kinda beautiful dey

ain’t nevah seen before;

like nobody and nothin’ else

dey eva seen befo’

 

Nah go on smile baby

Let me see you smile Rose girl

cuz you ain’t beautiful;

you fascinating,

my fascinating little Rose

and ain’t nothin’

and no one else

like you