A little boy not much more than a baby   Found a rose and picked it like a child would do   Proudly he went running to his mommy   And with a grin he said, "Look what me find for you"      A teenage boy packed groceries at the market   A rebel kid sometimes a little wild   But every year on Mother's Day and birthdays   He'd bring her a rose just like that little child      A single crimson rose   In time became a symbol of   Endless love shared between   A mother and her son   A single crimson rose   Was a special way to say   I'll always love you come what may   A single crimson rose      At eighteen, he enlisted in the army   To fight a war he felt needed to be won   Sometimes he'd write on Mother's Days and birthdays   He never failed to send a rose to mom      That soldier now is coming home a hero   With his medals to the mother that he loves   With tear-filled eyes, she tells him how she's missed him   And on his casket lays a single crimson rose      A single crimson rose   In time became a symbol of   Endless love shared between   A mother and her son   A single crimson rose   Was a special way to say   I'll always love you come what may   A single crimson rose      A single crimson rose   Was a special way to say   I'll always love you come what may   A single crimson rose      A little boy not much more than a baby   Found a rose and picked it like a child would do