Mother, The Queen Of My Heart-Hank Thompson

[ti:Mother, The Queen Of My Heart] [ar:Hank Thompson] [al:Songs Of The Brazos Valley] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mother, The Queen Of My Heart - Hank Thompson [00:06.49]I had a home down in [00:09.29]Texas down where the [00:13.44]Blue bonnets grew [00:16.92] [00:17.52]I had the kindest old mother [00:21.76] [00:23.07]How happy we were just we two [00:27.66] [00:28.27]Till one day the angels they called her [00:33.83]That debt we all have to pay [00:38.86] [00:39.37]And she'd call me close to her bedside [00:44.77]These last few words to say [00:49.56] [00:50.77]Son don't start drinking and gambling [00:55.86] [00:56.39]Promise you'll always go straight [01:01.22] [01:01.93]Ten years have passed since that parting [01:06.03] [01:07.07]That promise I've broke I must say [01:12.15] [01:12.81]I started in gambling for past time [01:18.16]And then I was just like them all [01:23.74]I bet all my clothes and my money [01:29.18]Not dreaming that I'd ever fall [01:34.30] [01:35.40]One night I've bet all my money [01:39.86] [01:40.53]Nothing was left to be seen [01:45.65] [01:46.17]All I needed to break them [01:50.94] [01:51.49]Was one card and that was a queen [01:56.34] [01:56.90]The cards were delt round the table [02:02.10]Each man took a card on the draw [02:07.90]And I drew the card that would beat them [02:13.49]I turned it here's what I saw [02:18.28] [02:19.54]I saw my mother's picture [02:24.56]And somehow she seemed to say [02:29.60] [02:30.49]Son you broken your promise [02:35.55]So [02:36.05]I threw those cards away [02:40.54] [02:41.35]My winnings I gave to a newsboy [02:46.34]I knew I was wrong from the start [02:51.91]Well I'll never forget that promise [02:57.19] [02:57.73]To mother the queen of my heart