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Ashley Monroe Entices Her Beau With 'Weed Instead of Roses' - Song Premiere

Country singer spices up a staid relationship

Ashley Monroe
Jim Wright
February 25, 2013 9:00 AM ET

Pistol Annies member Ashley Monroe is ready to venture out on her own with the release of her first solo album, Like a Rose, on March 5th through Warner Nashville. Now you can listen to the album cut "Weed Instead of Roses," an arch, tantalizing country tune about a stale relationship in desperate need of some herbal help. It finds Monroe cooing to her beau, "Go call your no-good brother/ We both know what he's been growing/ I'll be waiting with the whipped cream/ And baby, let's get going."

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