Answer to Galveston Rose

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...