# Nothing But a Wild Rose

- Music: Carrie Jacobs-Bond (died 1946)
- Words: Carrie Jacobs-Bond (died 1946)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6586980

## The words

Ah, ’tis nothing but a wild rose,  
Dainty petals frail and pink, And it withers  
while you pluck it, Hardly worth the while,  
you think, Hardly worth the while,  
you think.  

And so with some hearts we cherish,  
All too sensitive we know, For they cannot  
bear the rough winds, Nor the winter’s ice and  
snow, Nor the winter’s ice and snow.  

But the tender heart and wild rose,  
Tho’ their mission soon is past.  
Will have left a fragrant mem’ry Clinging  
’round us close and fast, Clinging ’round us  
close and fast.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).