Hank Williams Jr. - Eleven Roses Lyrics

The upright bass is killing it with those syncopated runs. Holy moly! Bob Moore maybe? I can’t tell if the kick drum is matched up with each bass note !

This is the most beautiful song he ever sang that comes close to his DAd. Hank senior is the bomb.

My husband came home from trucking one night said he had to run to the store real fast to grab us something to eat yet comes back with something behind his back he pulls out a bouquet of yellow roses and told me to count them I'm like honey there is only 11 roses he said sweetheart look into this mirror an he pulled out a pocket mirror and I said I don't see anything he said I see one o the most beautiful roses I have ever seen for you darlin are the twelth rose and played this song to me been happily married for 5 years this February

My favorite of his

I still LOVE this song!! I"d forgive him. . .

i.play.this.song.to.my.wife.she.pass.4.6.2019.mess.her.so.l0ve.melvin.

May the God of All Comfort bless you Melvin

Hank jrs best before he went into his rockabilly crap.

Sorry if this makes anyone upset I hop it doesn’t my Uncle Robert Bronman died and was berried play this song this one is special to me now because there’s a story that he told me when I was younger I was around 7or8 now I’m 17 when he said he was at a bar when he met ol’Hank him self and over a beer he sold this song 11 roses to hank at this bar with a contract written on a napkin and till this day he swears this really happened but even if it’s just a myth or if you people think this that that’s crazy no one could do that well then you don’t know my uncle he did a lot in his life some good a lot bad lol but he said he did right with this song now in some way I believe him because he’d told me he also met Willie Nelson which is true my uncles cousin he said used to keep his house clean and my uncle met him by that and which my dad verified he even said he smoked with him he told me a lot of stories but these were always my favorite

Kkllhhgg...,vaave...allow me to see you yaar.End..the pain.Both of us are bound by emotions..,let's see each other...,behave like a sweet child...kuttaa.../please.../do not be so stubborn.../and do not feel bad about the past ..tooWant to see you...,talk to you too..,love..u.yaar

Lovely...

No fuck y'all. I hear Conway. Conway woulda smoked this. I love Hank but Twitty is what I'm hearing.

This sounds less Hank Sr And more Frank Sinatra.

I don't know if this is related to the wiggles, or mistakenly got eleven roses instead of 8 roses.

*REAL COUNTRY MUSIC IS A FAMILY TRADITION* 😎

This was Hanks 2nd #1. He hit #1 the first time in 1970 with the theme song to Kelly's Heroes, "All for the Love of Sunshine". He was 21 then and one of three, male country artist who has hit number one at the tender age of twenty one (Johnny Rodriquez and Hunter Hayes with Tracy Lawrence just barely missing the cut) . But really, HWJR has so far in history been the most successful young, male artist in the country genre, and it's not even really close. He released his first single in 1964 with his father's song, "Long Gone Lonesome Blues". It made it to number 5. He was 14 when it topped out. Then he had many other top 5s in the late 60s including, "I'd Rather Be Gone" and "It's All Over but the Crying" and "Canjin Baby". This amazing song that Hank never liked was released in 1972 on an album with the same name, and in my opinion, this is when his voice hit its absolute peak. This song may have been too painful for him as around that time he divorced his first wife from which they had Hank III, aka Sheldon. His voice stayed really strong up until around 1988, but he didn't always try his best to produce the best possible vocal product once he got the rowdy image, and so it was often dismissed due to some of the not-so-serious vocals that he put out from the early 80s on. Some vocally well-done ablums are there even after his fall that include from the late 70s and the beginning of the 1980s, "Whiskey Bent" and "Old Habits".There are many exceptions though to poorer vocals beyond the late 70s of what he could do with his voice when he really tried. As late as his 2009, there was an album called "127 Rose Avenue" that never had a chance due to Mike Curb and what he did to some artists during that time, but there were some really well sung songs on it. He was around 60 at that time. "Mighty Oak Trees" is one of those songs. He didn't write it but sung it well.

*Hank rules* 🔫 🎸

Love this song love Hank Jr singing this way!!

Yep he is the man. Seen him a few times. Off the chain

*BOCEPHUS IS STILL THE KING FROM OLD SCHOOL WHEN COUNTRY MUSIC WAS REAL*
'CAUSE *REAL COUNTRY MUSIC IS AN OLD TRADITION*

*HANK: SOUTHLAND KING* ☆☆☆☆☆

Wow only ever heard this by Faron Young . Hank Jr sings it so beautifully .

I like this song besides the rose is my favorite and i.love the way HAND JR SINGS THIS SONG.

my very favorite hank jr. song!

I love you songs

I love you songs and I doubt your billion dog for you

Beautiful song about a man trying to get his point across to a woman without talking to her. We can all take note

My husband did this too me when he got off road from truck driving he told me to count the roses then he told me get into my makeup bag and pull out a mirror and he said now count them again I said babe there is only 11 still he's Like darlin open the mirror look hard into it you'll see the twelfth one and it's the most beautiful of all I cried

I love this song by Hank, Jr. Will always remember our times together. Lot's of memories.

You don't have to forget we can make some more

If Hankjr could have gotten more radio play back in the day before he hit his prime in the 80s. He would have had more than 10 number one hits.

Thinkyouknowmusic on Twitter brought me here.

My late husband loves roses and always gave me red roses, I had This played at his funeral as he loved it

I love this song by Hank Jr. His best. I have attended his concert, I don't thing he would think
of singing this song....his concert wasn't the best, even his hits didn't sound good, and this was
years ago. Nonetheless, I love to hear him sing this song.

Real country music. Hank Jr at his best

Jones would have SMOKED this song. But hank Jr did a great job on it for sure!

Jones was great, but he ain't no Bocephus.

LT1HILLINGHOE you’ve lost your ever loving mind... this is George Jones wheel house!

so cheesy but I love it

Hank's second #1. 1972.

I love you and miss you Bruce.

I never have cared for Hank jr. But, this song is in my opinion his best, and one of the best country songs ever written.

My favorite song

My absolute favorite

This is "truly" Hank Williams, Jr at his best. . . I love the "old" music,

One of my favorite Hank Jr. albums. Vinyl, not CD or anything else.

I use to play this song to friends and ask who was singing it a high percentage would say George Jones

Hank Jr. at his best.

very good song

I was 10 when this song came out. After it came out My Daddy would order Mama Eleven Roses and have a small mirror attached to the front of the Rose's so that when Mama looked in the mirror She would be Rose #12..

beautiful!

i,ll drink too,that,Not many of the Greats left,,,

This song came out before hank Jr accident

Yup. The Wrens. Gotta love Bobby Mansfield. I don't think many people realize this.

he sounds a bit like garth brooks

Ha! Garth wishes he was half as good as Hank Jr!

ELEVEN ROSES is by far one of the greatest country songs of all time. it's sad tHaT hank jr won't sing any of his older stuff at his concerts anymore. I quit goin to any of his shows because he won't sing his songs rite n plays bullshit music now days

I've said the same thing for years

this is my seound favert song this means alot ot me but same time it makes me cry

My second FAVORITE as well...the FIRST FAVORITE is...."The Last love Song"

Beautiful song; sang perfectly

Just like his pops what a voice!!!

my favorite hank jr. song absolutely beautiful

I'm a fan of bocephus old and new no matter if it is 1970ornow

sound relly good

He sounded much different before that hunting accident and the overdose but Hank's always sounded good regardless.

beautiful hank like your voice

ONE HELL OF A SONG!!!

I second that emotion, Martin!

Sounds to me like a cross between George jones and Conway Twitty, his voice I mean

Ha! Those two probably would have killed to have had a voice as good as Hank's

WE used to sit at the A frame on Smith Lake in Cullman ,AL and he would do those Hank songs.....Calvin, the bus driver and Hank Sr's employee at one time would have tears ruining off his cheeks. I have 50% publishing and writers royalties on this song. Lamar's part.

Gerald Murray: Both had voices as good or better than Hank Jr.

and vern gosdin.

@Gregory Faulkner George Jones was much better than hank jr

His finest!

a good love song

Connie Graf       Rest In Peace Brother

This is my favorite song by Hank JR>

I like it too

Me 2. Beautiful song

there's nothing like some old school Hank jr

very cool old school hankwilliamsjr

The legends never die George Jones .
Was the Angel ... That all the other Legends were waiting for ...God.Bless you I Love you and I'm going to miss you

me too I miss George Jones and the hagrip

and may I add Merle haggard

your friend did co-write it with Darrell McCall. Darrell was featured with songwriters on Country Family Reunion. I also have an original copy with both writers listed.

"Eleven Roses" is the title of a song written by Lamar Morris and Darrell McCallm and recorded by American country music artist Hank Williams Jr.. It was released in March 1972 as the only single and title track from the album of the same name. The song became Williams' first number one on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in July 1972, spending two weeks atop the chart. The song spent 14 weeks on the Hot Country Singles chart's top 40.[1] @ Hunter Coon, just to clarify

Actually... what few people realize is that about 22 years before this, Bobby Mansfield, Francis Concepcion, George Magnezid, and James Archer turned Jack Wachs' poem called "Eleven Roses" into a song. So technically the Wrens should get the credit for "Eleven Roses". While this song is obviously different in style and lyrics, it has the same message. You should give the Wrens a try though. Bobby Mansfield sure had one SWEET voice.

Somehow, I think of driving in a storm – darkened skies at mid-afternoon, lightning flashing – when I hear this song. Don't ask why. As for the song, a great ballad you rarely hear Hank perform in concert today ... although I'd bet he still probably does during his ballad set. Great contrast to the "Rowdy"/"Country Boy" and political songs.

That is a negative my friend... A guy from my home town of Opp Alabama Wrote it... His name is Lamar Morris... Go look him up.. just to clear that up with you and everyone else @85oldschool

I love that song !!!! Thanks for posting. Rosa

this is a super great song

this is a beautiful song

How in the world can there be a dislike to this??????

No, it was "Richmond Valley Breeze". "All for the Love of Sunshine" came out some three years earlier.

The One Person that left a thunmbs down must had want to hear 12 roses LOL !!

Love this song.

I love this song and many many more of them.

this song says a lot we houd all think about it it is true wish i coud go back an send a fur more my self

GREAT OLD SONG

THINKING OF MY MOM,SHE WOULD BE 83 APRIL 27!

@hanktified99 - I love your comment, because I have also used the 11 roses thing on every girl I ever dated. They thought that was just the sweetest thing anybody had ever done for them, in fact that is how I "sealed the deal" with my wife of 15 years now. I had 11 roses delivered to her house and borrowed hanks line to butter her all up the night I proposed to her. YEARS AND YEARS later they played the song on XM radio when we were on a trip, and like you I was BUSTED!!!

smart guy.

1 person is gay !

Another #1 hit for Hank Williams, Jr. on the Country & Western charts. This was the 232nd #1 C&W song of the Rock Era. It also hit #1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks charts.

About 15 or 20 yrs. ago, it was either Mothers Day, or my Moms birthday...and I told my Dad to get 11 roses and put this on the card. Oh yeah, Mom was thrilled.

mmmm that's a totally different story to what i heard. i believe that Darrall was on the road and hadn't seen his mum for some time and wrote it for her, i guess you never really know.

Thank you Hank Williams Jr

a true love song !!

My Daddy bought me an album from readers digest when I was a kid (in the 80's) This song was on it. I wasnt familiar with country music at that time but after that, I learned to LOVE COUNTRY MUSIC. Thanks Daddy. RIP!

from my first love....this was our song..thank for for posting this..brings back some great memories

@7jharr9
My brother, Joel Lee Grantham, wrote this song and sent it to his best friend of 12 yrs. Lamar Morris who had moved to Nashville. Lamar was Joel's best friend. They grew up together in Andalusia, Alabama. Joel and Lamar played guitar together at our house when I was 5-6 yrs, old. So, In my brother's honor, I just want everyone to know who the REAL original writer was. Darrell and Lamar did the editing and got al the credits and royalties,

@hanktified99
Almost the exact same thing happened to me! From today, it was just about 10 years ago that I sent 11 roses to the lady I was dating! I got busted by the radio on a Saturday night legends show when they played eleven roses. LOL, small world!

i loved these songs ,how did u get them on;' i could listen to this all nite.

@claysjavelin1 No THE BEST

This is a kick ass song, I had just heard for the first time yesterday. I was totally shocked to find out it was Hank Jr. since all i've ever heard from him was hell raising songs. He does an outstanding job on this Classic!

A great rose song and a great singer.I think the king of rose songs would have loved this song,I know maney of his songs,and he sang them from the heart.Yes,Hank Snow would have truely loved this song..Cassidy....(snodgrasser)

That's right...I was thinking that I was a few years early after I had posted it. Thank you!

I'm pretty sure that this came out in 1966. I listened to it here in Southern California on radio station AM 1350 KCKC

a step dad is just more than a step dad he is the world and my DAD has sang this to my mom as well and thanks to my dad for teaching me all about life!`

i believe before?