“The Bramble and the Rose” was written by the songwriter Barbara Keith. Copyrighted around 1971, the song appeared on a Keith recording in the early 1970s.
The song uses a pair of plants growing together — the thorny bramble and the rose — as a figure for two people bound in a long relationship. Neither could now say where one leaves off and the other begins; the lyric finds in that tangle an image of a love grown inseparable over time.
The song became a favorite in bluegrass, recorded by a number of bands.
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