Answer To The Galveston Rose — текст песни (Hank Snow)

I`m writing this answer to the Galveston Rose
The answer to a sad, broken heart
My whole world, it crumbled when I read your last note
Saying, that we forever must part

Oh, I realize now you were innocent, dear
When in anger I said we were through
For as all the long years have passed slowly away
I find that I`ll always love you

There were tears on your cheeks when I bid you goodbye
And you pleaded with me not to go
These last years I have paid for the wrong I have done
To my sweetheart the Galveston Rose

Now, they say you are resting in a lonely churchyard
Where the violets and red roses hide
And I pray when I die my request they will fill
And lay me to rest by your side

I have longed and I`ve yearned for you many a time
And wished I could undo the past
And hold you again in my arms tenderly
And live with you, dear, to the last

Now you`ve heard my sad answer to a flower so fair
One I loved more than anyone knows
With God`s help I`ll repay for the sorrow and tears
That I brought to my Galveston Rose