My Heart's Tonight In Texas - The Carter Family

In the distant state of Texas by the silver Rio Grande

Strolled a couple out one evening was two sweethearts hand in hand

Was a rich man’s pretty daughter and the lad she loved so dear

Though tomorrow they must part for many a year

My heart’s tonight in Texas though I’m far across the sea

The band is playing «Dixie» and there’s where I long to be

Dad says the earl I’ll marry but although here is my hand

My heart’s tonight in Texas by the silver Rio Grande

To Europe she was going to become a lady grand

Where her father hopes an earl, of course, she’ll wed

But she went away next morning and her heart was true to Jack

But a letter came one day and this it read

At a stately ball in England stood the Texas lad one night

The scenes were all splendid and the lights were dazzling bright

The earl knelt beside her asking her to be his bride

But her thoughts were by the silver Rio Grande