HANK SNOW - ANSWER TO BLUE VELVET BAND Lyrics

Spoken:Well howdy boys, howdy manMan, 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:Sang:By and old willow tree in the churchyardOn the banks of the old Rio GrandeLies a loved one who died broken heartedShe was known as the Blue Velvet Band.She was called by the angels up yonderAs the dew kissed the pale summer roseAs we stood there in silence, disheartedThese words to her lover did go.Dear Jack, you mistrusted your darlingYou said that my love wasn't trueYou've roamed o'er the wide open spacesBut my thoughts, they were always of you.Now, my last wish was once more to see youBut they say you're in some foreign landYou're forgiveness is in this last messageFrom your heartbroken Blue Velvet Band.Far away o'er the lone western prairieHer message sped fast o'er the wayTo the side of a bed where her cowboyWas 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 churchyardBy my sweetheart, the Blue Velvet Band...