Lyrics for Answer Me My Love by Marty Robbins:
Answer me, oh my loveJust what sin have I been guilty of
Tell me how I came to lose your love
Please, answer me sweetheart
You were mine yesterday
I belived that love was here to stay
Will you tell me where I’ve gone astray
Please, answer me my love
If you’re happier without me
I’ll try not to care
But if you still care about me
Please, listen to my prayer
You should know I’ve been blue
Will you say that we can start anew
In my sorrow now I turn to you
Please, answer me my love
If you’re happier without me
I’ll try not to care
But if you still care about me
Please, listen to my prayer
You should know I’ve been blue
Will you say that we can start anew
In my sorrow now I turn to you
Please, answer me my love
Answer me my love
Lyrics for Blue Sand by Marty Robbins:
Blue sand, you left my islandNow I hold in my hand
This blue, blue sand
Blue sea, that took you from me
We sigh and we’re lonely
The sea and me
Will you remember
Our moonlight swims at sea
We laughed together
You gave your love to me
And now there’ll be blue days
I’ll wear a blue lei
Till we meet again someday
On blue, blue sand
Will you remember
Our moonlight swims at sea
We laughed together
You gave your love to me
And now there’ll be blue days
I’ll wear a blue lei
Till we meet again someday
On blue, blue sand
Lyrics for Way I Loved You Best by Marty Robbins:
I’d give anything to feel againThe warmness of your body close to mine
Like the foggy dew that drifts away
A love we knew drifted away with time
I’d give anything to feel again
The warmness of your face upon my chest
Lord, I’d love to hear you whisper, once again
You like the way I loved you best
Oh, it’s not your fault that you’re not here
I and I can’t take the blame, Lord knows I tried
I did everything that I could do
I wasn’t man enough to satisfy
You were just too much a woman
But the urge to love you keeps my mind from rest
Lord, I’d love to hear you whisper, once again
You like the way I loved you best
And if I never have the pleasure of your love again
I’ll always have my dreams
But the drive to love you wakes me
In the middle of the nightime and it seems
I can almost feel the wetness of your warm
And salty tears upon my chest
Lord, I’d love to hear you whisper, once again
You like the way I loved you best
Lord, I’d love to hear you whisper, once again
You like the way I loved you best
Lyrics for The Cottonwood Tree by Marty Robbins:
I rode into Tucson three hours agoFor supplies and a short, friendly game
A poker-wild smitty put some new shoes
On old Dan before he goes lame.
I sat in a game at the Miner’s Saloon
Soon I had doubled my stake
The cards run like they’d been dealt by lady luck
They were just sealin’ my fate.
A young cowboy lost more than he could afford
And accused me of dealin’ too smart
His draw was too slow and he fell to the floor
With three bullets close to the heart.
Oh, cottonwood tree are you waiting for me
Waiting to take me away
I’ve done no wrong but the town cannot see
And so, with my life I must pay.
A crowd started gatherin’, the sheriff came in
I handed him over my gun
Was then that I found out the boy I had killed
Was the town’s biggist man’s only son.
I tried to explain I had shot in defense
It was the young cowboy or me
The crowd wouldn’t listen so they drug me out
To the limb of this cottonwood tree.
Majestic’ly standing out here all alone
It’s Spring and the valley is green
But I can’t admire a place I don’t belong
To me it’s all like a bad dream.
But old Dan’s beneath me with new shoes and all
As they place the noose ’round my neck
Cowboys I never laid eyes on before
A-tyin’ my hands to my back.
Oh, cottonwood tree are you waiting for me
Waiting to take me away
I’ve done no wrong, but the town cannot see
And so, with my life I must pay.
I see hate in the eyes of the town’s biggest man
As he pulls a branch from the tree
To whip the backside of my old pony, Dan
So he’ll run out from under me.
Insane, he won’t listen to my last appeal
A wild grin has covered his face
As I tried to reason just how he would feel
If he were up here in my place.
There’s many a mountain trail I’ll never ride
Green valley’s I’ll never see
A young cowboy died, and a man’s foolish pride
Brought me to this cottonwood tree.
My face is turned upward and I cannot breath
The sky’s growing dark overhead
The knot’s pulling tight as my body swings free
A few moment’s more I’ll be dead.
Oh, cottonwood tree were you put here for me
Put here to take me away
I’ve done no wrong, but the town cannot see
And so, with my life I must pay.
Lyrics for Bend In The River by Marty Robbins:
Past the first bend in the river is another bend I can’t seeAnd the bend that keeps calling is the bend that keeps hiding from me
Past the first hill on the desert is another hill I can’t see
And the hill that keeps hiding is the hill that keeps calling to me
In the cottonwood by the river a mourning dove calls his mate
He has true love to give her but love for me must wait
Till I’ve traveled every river and each desert hill I have climbed
If I find love to my liking I’ll leave the river’s bend far behind
