Answer To The Blue Velvet Band Lyrics - Hank Snow

Written and recorded by Hank Snow 

(spoken) 

Well howdy boys, howdy, man, man it sure seems like a long time 

since I last rode down this old trail. How ya all anyhow? 

Fellas, you see, I still have this old cigar box with me. Yes Sir! 

And better yet, all the boys out here at the R.K. Ranch are singin' 

a new song now. Hope you like it because it's my answer to 

The Blue Velvet Band. It goes like this. 

By and old willow tree in the churchyard 

On the banks of the old Rio Grande 

Lies a loved one who died broken hearted 

She was known as the Blue Velvet Band 

She was called by the angels up yonder 

As the dew kissed the pale summer rose 

As we stood there in silence, dishearted 

These words to her lover did go 

Dear Jack, you mistrusted your darling 

You said that my love wasn't true 

You've roamed o'er the wide open spaces 

But my thoughts, they were always of you 

Now, my last wish was once more to see you 

But they say you're in some foreign land 

You're forgiveness is in this last message 

From your heartbroken Blue Velvet Band 

Far away o'er the lone western prairie 

Her message sped fast o'er the way 

To the side of a bed where her cowboy 

Was grieving his life fast away 

Please grant a last wish, boys, and lay me 

Out West on that old Rio Grande 

Neath that old willow tree in the churchyard 

By my sweetheart, the Blue Velvet Band