Hank Snow – My Blue River Rose (Guitar)

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There are flowers that are rich, there are flowers that are rare

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On the banks where the bright waters flow

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But the sweetest of all nature's flowers to bloom

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Was my darlin' the Blue River Rose

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Her eyes were the petals that glisten so bright

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Her smile was the sunshine so fair

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And the heart of my beautiful Rose was as true,

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As her tears like the dew sprinkled there

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In the bright month of June, neath that old southern moon

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At the altar each promise we'd close

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But old fate played its part and soon broke the heart

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Of my darlin' my Blue River Rose

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Her father objected said think of our pride

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We would never outlive such a crime

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There are plenty of men who are wealthy and then;

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Would be up in the world such as I

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So they sent her away to some far distant land

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A vacation they told her it would be

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When the leaves start to fall it is then we will call

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And you may return o'er the sea

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A year had passed on then the postman one morn

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Brought a letter to me and I read

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The rose that once bloomed in your garden of love

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Has all withered your darlin' is dead

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Now I'm left all alone this old world I must roam

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How I'll face every care heaven knows

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But each night by that stream I'll still meet her in dreams

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My darlin' my Blue River Rose