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No Beautiful Rose Here

Hush nah child
Hush ya cryin�
Ain�t no need a sheddin�
tears if da ones gotcha
bleedin� 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!

Oh 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 become what dey call common

But you baby�da word beautiful
don�t come near close
to what chu be
You be what dey call �fascinating�
I learned dat word when
I was 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
See, I thought she was beautiful
sitting in da middle of all dat dirt,
but daddy say
all dat dirt was surroundin� her
cuz she was �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