Mother, The Queen Of My Heart-Jimmie Rodgers

[ti:Mother, The Queen of My Heart] [ar:Jimmie Rodgers] [al:Country Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mother, The Queen Of My Heart - Jimmie Rodgers [00:19.67]I had a home out in Texas [00:22.24] [00:24.18]Down where the blue bonnet's grew [00:26.86] [00:29.03]I had the kindest old mother; [00:31.60] [00:33.45]How happy we were just we two [00:36.29] [00:38.32]Till one day the angels' called her [00:41.36] [00:42.93]That debt we all have to pay [00:45.55] [00:47.62]She called me close to her bedside [00:50.52] [00:51.80]These last few words to say [00:55.03] [00:57.21]"Son don't start drinking and gambling [01:00.18] [01:02.01]Promise you'll always go straight " [01:04.27] [01:05.99]Ten years have passed since that parting [01:09.44] [01:10.52]That promise I've broke I must say [01:13.92] [01:15.75]I started gambling for pastime [01:18.72] [01:20.27]At last I was just like them all [01:23.27] [01:25.46]I bet my clothes and my money [01:27.94] [01:29.86]Not dreaming that I'd ever fall [01:32.43] [01:53.64]One night I bet all my money [01:56.21] [01:58.35]Nothing was left to be seen [02:00.85] [02:02.83]All that I needed to break them [02:06.37]Was one card and that was a queen [02:10.39] [02:12.59]The cards were dealt all 'round the table [02:14.90] [02:17.16]Each man took a card on the draw [02:19.40] [02:21.69]I drew the one that would beat them; [02:24.58] [02:25.95]I turned it and here's wat I saw [02:30.15] [02:31.15]I saw my mother's picture [02:34.06] [02:35.90]And somehow she seemed to say [02:38.44] [02:40.81]"Son you have broken your promise " [02:43.34] [02:44.82]So I tossed the cards away [02:48.07] [02:50.17]My winnings I gave to a newsboy [02:53.52] [02:54.83]I knew I was wrong from the start [02:57.59] [02:59.47]And I'll never forget that promise [03:02.78] [03:04.00]To my Mother the queen of my heart