Wilting Rose
By Doug Supernaw
Written by Doug Supernaw & Lonnie Atkinson
Album: Fadin’ Renegade (1999)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
11/15/2020


D         Bm    F#m
Cold tile floors, a single bed
    G                   D   A
The TV is her only company
D      Bm  F#m
Out he door she sticks her head
G                     A 
Thought she heard her family
G                     D      
But it's not Christmas or Mother's Day
Bm                      G    
And all her old friends have passed away
      D           A            G
She's living in a garden where only heartache grows
           D              A         G     A       D     Bm  F#m  G  A
Cause what was a blooming flower is now a wilting rose


Days go by, she's hanging on
Staring at the grand kids on the wall
She stars to cry 'cause Sunday's gone
I guess they just forgot to call
And all that keeps her from giving up
The hope she'll look outside and walking up
Is a child that must meet Grandma before the day she goes
'Cause what was a blooming flower is now a wilting rose

She's living in a garden where everybody knows
That we'll soon be laying flowers upon our wilting rose