San Antonio Rose

Charles H. Hubbell

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Mar 7, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/7/98

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"San Antonio Rose", featured back in the '40s by Bob Wills and
His Texas Playboys, is still a favorite. The lyrics start off with

"Deep within my heart lies a melody,
A song of old San Antone ...."

How does the rest of it go? (More than one verse, I believe.)

Much obliged.
Chuck

Ronald E. Hontz

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Mar 8, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/8/98

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Got this from someone else and didn't check it, but it looks good.

San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills

Deep within my heart lies a melody,

A song of old San An - tone.
Where in dreams I live with a memory,
Beneath the stars all alone.
It was there I found beside the Alamo
Enchantment strange as the blue up above.
A moonlit pass only she would know,
Still hears my broken song of love.
Moon in all your splendor, know only my heart
Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone.
Lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart.
Speak once a - gain of my love, my own.
Broken song, empty words I know still live in my heart all a - lone
For that moonlit pass by the Alamo, and Rose, my Rose of San Antone.

Doug Ahern

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Mar 9, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/9/98

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Ronald E. Hontz (ronh...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:

: Charles H. Hubbell wrote:
: > "San Antonio Rose", featured back in the '40s by Bob Wills and
: > His Texas Playboys, is still a favorite. The lyrics start off with
: >
: > "Deep within my heart lies a melody,
: > A song of old San Antone ...."

: >

: Got this from someone else and didn't check it, but it looks good.

a little nit-picking here (or trivia, depends how you look at it)
"San Antonio Rose" is an instrumental, Bob added lyrics to it
some 10 years or more after it was already a recorded hit, not
to mention, a constant on the texas Playboys set list. The new version
with lyrics was called "New San Antonio Rose".

A great song, its gotta be among the most covered songs of all time.

"take it away Leon.... take it away..."

hart...@athenet.net

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Mar 9, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/9/98

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Hello,
I grew up with this song, but I hear one of the words differently than
they are transposed here, I hear path instead of pass. Of course, there
is no "pass" near the Alamo!, so maybe that's why I don't think the
lyric is correct. Anyway, here it is; enjoy!
J. Hart

San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills

Deep within my heart lies a melody,

A song of old San An - tone.
Where in dreams I live with a memory,
Beneath the stars all alone.
It was there I found beside the Alamo
Enchantment strange as the blue up above.
A moonlit pass only she would know,
Still hears my broken song of love.
Moon in all your splendor, know only my heart
Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone.
Lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart.
Speak once a - gain of my love, my own.
Broken song, empty words I know still live in my heart all a - lone
For that moonlit pass by the Alamo, and Rose, my Rose of San Antone.

Charles H. Hubbell wrote:
>
> "San Antonio Rose", featured back in the '40s by Bob Wills and
> His Texas Playboys, is still a favorite. The lyrics start off with
>
> "Deep within my heart lies a melody,
> A song of old San Antone ...."
>