From Hell & Heroes (Vol.1) available now. Visit:
Filmed by Johnny Giles
Edited by Mary James
Penelope Rose (M. James)
Some men are cowards and some men are brave
Some share their secrets, some take them to their grave
Some walk in sunlight, some hide in shadows
But they all love Penelope Rose
He came from Baton Rouge working on a case
A law man, a good man, who lived for the chase
A picture of a woman in a red cotton dress
Was a dead man’s last caress
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He stared at that picture and drunk it in like gin
dangerous eyes that could make a good man sin
He’d memorized her from her head to her toes
And he’d dream about Penelope Rose
For 10 lonely years he’s worked homicide
Turning his back would be justified
But he’s tangled in a web of cases he can’t close
All tied to Penelope Rose
They call her the woman with the rose tattoo
In New Orleans she goes by Penny LaRue
He’d know her anywhere,