Mother the Queen of My Heart-Ernest Tubb

[ti:Mother the Queen of My Heart] [ar:Ernest Tubb] [al:The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mother the Queen of My Heart - Ernest Tubb [00:05.87]I had a home down in Texas down [00:11.24] [00:11.75]Where the Bluebonnets grew [00:15.00] [00:15.78]I had the kindest old mother [00:19.80] [00:20.53]How happy we were just we two [00:25.59]Till one day the angels called her [00:30.66]That debt we all have to pay [00:35.82]She'd call me close to [00:38.18]Her bedside these last few words to say [00:45.30] [00:45.97]Now son don't start drinking and gambling promise [00:52.31]You'll always go straight [00:55.64] [00:56.28]Ten years have passed since that parting [01:00.64] [01:01.30]That promise I've broke I must say [01:06.43]I started in gambling for past time [01:11.09] [01:11.60]And last I was just like them all [01:16.26] [01:16.88]I bet all my clothes and my money [01:21.42] [01:21.97]Not dreaming that I'd ever fall [01:26.64] [01:37.90]One night I've bet all my money [01:42.13] [01:43.06]Nothing was left to be seen [01:47.73]And all that I needed to break them [01:52.44] [01:53.04]Was one card and that was a Queen [01:58.26]The cards were delt round [02:00.69]The table each man took a card on the draw [02:08.23] [02:08.96]I drew the one that would beat them [02:13.23] [02:13.86]I turned it that here's what I saw [02:18.67] [02:19.43]I saw my mother's picture [02:24.31]And somehow she seemed to say [02:29.25] [02:29.96]Son you have roken your promise so [02:35.02]I told those cards away [02:39.39] [02:39.90]My winnings I gave to a newsboy [02:45.10]I knew I was wrong from the start [02:49.91] [02:50.42]And I'll never forget that promise [02:54.84] [02:55.55]To my mother the Queen of my heart