Answer To The Galveston Rose Lyrics - Hank Snow

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