Give Me The Roses While I Live

D A D Wonderful things of folks are said / When they have passed away A D Roses adorn the narrow bed / Over the sleeping clay G D A Give them the roses while they live / Trying to cheer them on D A D Useless the flowers that you give / After the soul is gone D A D Praises are heard not by the dead / Roses they cannot see D A D Let us not wait till souls have fled / Generous friends to be G D A Give them the roses while they live / Trying to cheer them on D A D Useless the flowers that you give / After the soul is gone D A D Faults are forgiven when folks lie / Cold in the narrow bed D A D Let us forgive them 'ere they die / Now should the words be said