The Only Rose - Hank Snow

Old father time has seen a million million hearts

Break with pain down the highway of years

I never dreamed that the love I thought was true

Would deceive and just leave me these tears.

The little seeds of happiness I grew with tender care

Have withered now that fate has played its part

And my bud of love has closed I have lost the only rose

That was blooming in the garden of my heart.

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Mr Moon I wonder as you gaze from up above

On my broken heart that love has cast away

If there’s just one trace of sadness on my darling’s face tonight

Will she bloom within my heart again some day.

Will the weeds and briars vanish where the tears of sorrow fell

And let the seeds of romance play its part

Or must I go on living with just mem’ries of a rose

That once blossomed in the garden of my heart…