Jimmie Rodgers - Mother, the Queen of My Heart Lyrics

Lyrics Mother, the Queen of My Heart - Jimmie Rodgers



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



Writer(s): J. Rodgers, H. Bryant


Jimmie Rodgers - My Rough And Rowdy Ways
Album My Rough And Rowdy Ways
date of release
13-10-2012

1 My Old Pal
2 The Soldier's Sweetheart
3 Sleep Baby, Sleep
4 Ben Dewberry's Final Run
5 Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas)
6 Away On the Mountain
7 The Brakeman's Blues (Yodelling the Blues Away)
8 The Sailor's Plea
9 In the Jailhouse Now
10 Blue Yodel No. 2 (My Lovin' Gal Lucille)
11 Memphis Yodel
12 Blue Yodel No. 3 (Evening Sun Yodel or She's Long, She's Tall)
13 My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans
14 My Little Lady
15 Never No Mo' Blues
16 Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues)
17 Waiting for a Train
18 I'm Lonely and Blue
19 Desert Blues
20 Any Old Time
21 Blue Yodel No. 5
22 High Powered Mama
23 I'm Sorry We Met
24 Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
25 Train Whistle Blues
26 Jimmie's Texas Blues
27 Frankie and Johnny
28 Blue Yodel No. 6
29 Yodelling Cowboy
30 My Rough and Rowdy Ways
31 Hobo Bill's Last Ride
32 Mississippi River Blues
33 Blue Yodel No. 7 (Anniversary Blue Yodel)
34 Blue Yodel No. 11
35 That's Why I'm Blue
36 Why Did You Give Me Your Love?
37 Blue Eyed Jane
38 Pistol Packin' Papa
39 Those Gambler's Blues
40 Jimmy's Mean Mamma Blues
41 The Mystery of Number Five
42 Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)
43 In the Jailhouse Now No. 2
44 T.B. Blues
45 Travellin' Blues
46 Jimmie the Kid
47 Why There's a Tear In My Eye
48 The Wonderful City
49 Let Me Be Your Side Track
50 When the Cactus Is In Bloom (Round-Up Time Out West)
51 Gambling Polka Dot Blues
52 Looking for a New Mama
53 My Good Gal's Gone
54 Southern Cannon Ball
55 Roll Along Kentucky Moon
56 Hobo's Meditation
57 My Time Ain't Long
58 Ninety Nine Years Blues
59 Blue Yodel No.10 (Ground Hog Rootin' In My Back Yard)
60 In the Hills of Tennessee
61 Mother, the Queen of My Heart
62 Rock All Our Babies to Sleep
63 Whippin' That Old TB
64 No Hard Times
65 Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia
66 Gambling Bar Room Blues
67 I've Only Loved Three Women
68 Prairie Lullaby
69 Miss the Mississippi and You
70 Sweet Mama Hurry Home
71 Blue Yodel No.12 (Barefoot Blues)
72 Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes
73 The Cowhand's Last Ride
74 I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now
75 Blue Yodel No. 13 (Women Made A Fool Out of Me)
76 The Yodelling Ranger
77 Old Pal of My Heart
78 Old Love Letters
79 Mississippi Delta Blues
80 Somewhere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line
81 Years Ago (Fifteen Years Ago Today)




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