Answer To The Galveston Rose Lyrics

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