Written by Hoyt Bryant/Jimmie Rodgers
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I had a home down in Texas
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Down where the blue bonnets grew
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I had the kindest old mother
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How happy we were just we two
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Till one day the angels called her
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A debt that we all have to pay
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She called me close to her bedside
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To me these words she did say
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Son don't start drinking and gambling
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Promise you'll always go straight
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Ten years have passed since we parted
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My promise I've broke I must say
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I started gambling for pastime
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Soon I was just like them all
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I bet my clothes and my money
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Not thinking that I'd ever fall
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One day I bet all my money
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Not a thing was left to be seen
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All that I needed to break them
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Was one card and that was a queen
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The cards were dealt round the table
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Each man took one from the draw
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I drew the one that would beat them
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I turned it and here?s what I saw
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I saw my mother's picture
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And to me she seemed to say
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Son you have broken your promise
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So I tossed the cards away
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I gave all my winnings to a newsboy
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I knew I was wrong from the start
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I'll never forget that promise
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To my Mother the queen of my heart
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