BLUE ROSES Words and music by Paddy McAloon blue roses will blossom in the snow before I ever let you go blue roses will grow up to the sky before I ever make you cry blue roses... you need more reassurance than a frightened orphan child that I'm always gonna want you that I'll always be beguiled so I search for words to tell you that my love for you is blind but this fragment of a children's song is all that I can find blue roses will blossom in the snow before I ever let you go blue roses will grow up to the sky before I ever make you cry blue roses... this nursery rhyme is corny, it is stranded out of time yet it's simple and it's honest the same and since when was that a crime ? and perhaps whoever wrote it loved someone like I love you for in matters of the heart I've learned there's little that is new blue roses will blossom In the snow before I ever let you go blue roses will grow up to the sky before I ever make you cry blue roses... JIMMY NAIL - VOCALS STEVE ROBSON - PIANO ALAN CLARK - ORGAN DOMINIC MILLER - GUITAR JAMES STEVENSON - GUITAR MELVIN DUFfY - PEDAL STEEL PINO PALLADINO - BASS GARY HUSBAND - DRUMS HARRY MORGAN - PERCUSSION