In a garden of city streets
I watched her growing there
Pretty as a flower
and the flowers in her own black hair
And the traffic kind of cools it
and it stops for a while
Just to watch her walk
and smile her pretty smile
And I would know her
even if I'd never heard her name
Cause no matter what they call her,
to me it's all the same
Cause a rose by any other name
is still a rose
Though I know her
Christian name is Maria
But a rose by any other name
is still a rose
And my friend, you know what I mean
the moment you see her
Oh, yesterday we touched for the first time
It was worth the wait,
but I felt her cherry lips on mine
And the tears ran down her cheeks
and she whispered, Darling,
I love you, oh, yeah
Even in the ghetto, dreams do come true
And I wouldn't know her
even if I'd never heard her name
Cause no matter what they call her,
to me it's all the same
Coral Rose, by any other name,
is still a rose
Though I know her Christian
name is Maria
But a rose, by any other name,
is still a rose
An d my friend,
you'll know what I mean
the moment you see her
But a rose, by any other name,
is still a rose
And my friend,
you'll know what I mean
the moment you see her
But a rose by any other name
is still a rose
And I didn't know what I meant
the moment you see her
But a rose by any other name
is still a rose