Answer To Blue Velvet Band-Hank Snow

[ti:Answer To Blue Velvet Band] [ar:Hank Snow] [al:My San Antonio Mamma] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.85]Well howdy boys howdy man man it sure seems like a long time [00:03.91]Since I last rode down this old trail How ya all anyhow [00:07.79]Fellas you see I still have this old cigar box with me Yes Sir [00:11.41]And better yet all the boys out here at the R K Ranch are singin' [00:14.03]A new song now Hope you like it because it's my answer to [00:17.21]The Blue Velvet Band It goes like this [00:18.79] [00:24.83]By and old willow tree in the churchyard [00:32.39]On the banks of the old Rio Grande [00:39.63]Lies a loved one who died broken hearted [00:46.98]She was known as the Blue Velvet Band [00:53.22] [00:54.34]She was called by the angels up yonder [01:01.63]As the dew kissed the pale summer rose [01:08.81]As we stood there in silence dishearted [01:15.80] [01:16.35]These words to her lover did go [01:23.72]Dear Jack you mistrusted your darling [01:30.87]You said that my love wasn't true [01:38.24]You've roamed o'er the wide open spaces [01:45.09]But my thoughts they were always of you [01:51.51] [01:52.14]Now my last wish was once more to see you [01:58.45] [01:59.25]But they say you're in some foreign land [02:06.35]You're forgiveness is in this last message [02:13.77]From your heartbroken Blue Velvet Band [02:21.14]Far away o'er the lone western prairie [02:28.50]Her message sped fast o'er the way [02:35.30]To the side of a bed where her cowboy [02:42.66]Was grieving his life fast away [02:49.91]Please grant a last wish boys and lay me [02:56.76]Out West on that old Rio Grande [03:03.51]Neath that old willow tree in the churchyard [03:10.74]By my sweetheart the Blue Velvet Band