Rose Tattoo

Words & music by Fred Knipe & Steve Chandler / Southwest Words & Music (BMI)


Tell me, my friend
Tell me again ‘cause I don’t understand
The kind of love life you say you got planned
You’re gonna keep moving round, a free man
No regrets or it gets out of hand



Well, you might wish they didn’t but this is what they’ll do
Turn you little red, turn you little blue
Leave a little mark right across your heart
It’ll stay with you like a rose tattoo



What’s that you say,
Falling in love makes a man go insane?
You’ll be above playing that kind of game?
Well, you’ve said enough now ‘cause
Look at the way you light up
When I mention her name



You might wish she didn’t but this is what she’ll do
Turn you little red, turn you little blue
Leave a little mark right across your heart
It’ll stay with you like a rose tattoo