Sweet Texas Rose

Sweet Texas Rose
(Susie Salley 2004)


West from New York City to the Rio Grande
To make her way in this world the only way she can
She spent the years of her youth behind a bar room door
In a cow-polk town in Texas in-a 18 and 94
Can’t help but notice her vivacious style and grace
She’s sure to put a smile upon your face
The wranglers gather 'round her they love to sing and play
And dance with the ladies back in the good ol' days
Chorus
She’s a sweet Texas Rose
Her honky tonk life was choose
The cowboys that she knows
She’s a sweet Texas Rose

PIANEE

Now it’s been a hundred years how the time has passed
Those wild west days, they ended much too fast
Gone are the cowboys and the dance hall saloons
Gone are the dogies and the low prairie moons

Her smile is cracked and yellowed it once was ivory white
Her face is carved in beauty a craftsman's pure delight
Her music comes from her heart and to this very day
It rings out of her body in a beautiful old way
Chorus
She’s a sweet Texas Rose
Wood piano
Her honky tonk life was choose
For this sweet Texas rose

She’s a sweet Texas Rose
Her honky tonk life was choose
The cowboys that she knows
She’s a sweet Texas Rose

She’s a sweet Texas Rose
She’s a sweet Texas Rose
She’s a sweet Texas Rose