I'm writing this answer to the Galveston Rose   The answer to a sad, broken heart   My whole world, it crumbled when I read your last note    Saying, that we forever must part      Oh, I realize now you were innocent, dear   When in anger I said we were through   For as all the long years have passed slowly away   I find that I'll always love you      There were tears on your cheeks when I bid you goodbye   And you pleaded with me not to go   These last years I have paid for the wrong I have done   To my sweetheart the Galveston Rose      Now, they say you are resting in a lonely churchyard   Where the violets and red roses hide   And I pray when I die my request they will fill   And lay me to rest by your side      I have longed and I've yearned for you many a time   And wished I could undo the past   And hold you again in my arms tenderly   And live with you, dear, to the last      Now you've heard my sad answer to a flower so fair   One I loved more than anyone knows   With God's help I'll repay for the sorrow and tears   That I brought to my Galveston Rose