Mother, The Queen Of My Heart

Mother, The Queen Of My Heart - Ernest Tubb

I had a home out in Texas

Out where the Bluebonnet grew

I had the kindest mother

How happy we were just we two

Till one day the angels called her

It's the debt that we all have to pay

She'd call me close to her bedside

These last few words she did say

Now son don't start drinking or gambling

Promise you'll always go straight

Ten years have passed since that parting

That promise I've broke I must say

I started gambling for past time

At last Lord I was just like them all

I bet my clothes and my money

Never dreaming that I'd ever fall

One night I've bet all my money

Nothing was left to be seen

And all that I needed to break them

Was one card and that was a Queen

The Cards were delt all round the table

Each man took a card from the draw

I drew the one that would beat them

I turned it here's what I saw

I saw mama's picture and she seemed to say

Son you have broken your promise

Tossed those cards away

My winnings I gave to a newsboy

I knew I was wrong from the start

And I'll never forget that promise

To mother the Queen of my heart