"Rose in Paradise" is a song written by Stewart Harris and Jim McBride,[1] and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings.
The song is about a beautiful young woman named Rose, who is courted by and eventually marries a rich Georgia banker.
The banker is a humble, soft-spoken, milquetoast individual ... except when the conversation turns to Rose: "Every time he talks about her, you can see the fire in his eyes, He says I would walk through Hell on Sunday, to keep my Rose in Paradise."
Late in the song, the elderly banker retires to his estate, apparently suffering from a late-life illness and rarely leaving as he simply spends his days sitting and staring at his garden and the mansion falling into disrepair around him.
The last line tells how the garden has a rose that similar to the missing wife has a beauty that cuts like a knife and keeps growing in the wintertime and keeps blooming even in the night....