Bed of Rose's (song)
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Bed of Rose's is a country song by the Statler Brothers, from their 1970 album of the same name.
The song's title is a play on the English idiom "bed of roses", meaning a life of ease. It is also a challenge of narrow-minded religion, which criticizes sinners while failing to help those in need.
The singer, orphaned at age 18[1], was ignored by the other townspeople who "would go to church but left me in the street". The only person who showed any compassion for the young man was Rose, a prostitute nearly twice his age, who takes him in; in turn, he becomes her lover and stays with her until her death (when she died, and of what, is not mentioned, only that she was mentioned in the past tense).
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- ↑ At the time the song was released, 21 was the age of majority. The 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18 (which, in turn, lowered the age of majority in most cases), was passed about a year afterwards.