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My Heart's Tonight in Texas 
My Heart's Tonight in Texas 
In the Lone Star state of Texas by the silv'ry Rio Grande Strolled a couple one fine evening, two sweethearts hand in hand "Twas the ranchman's pretty daughter and the lad she loved so dear On the morrow they must part for many a weary year 
To Europe she was going to become a lady grand Where her father hoped some Earl or else Count she'd wed She left the ranch next morning, though her heart was true to Jack Only yesterday a letter came and this is what it said 
My heart's tonight in Texas, though I'm far across the sea For the band is playing Dixie and it's where I long to be Dad says some Earl I'll marry, but you shall have my hand For my heart's tonight in Texas by the silv'ry Rio Grande 
In a stately hall in England stood the Texas girl one night The scene was one of splendor and the lights were burning bright Before her knelt an Earl humbly begging for her hand But her thoughts were back in Texas by the silv'ry Rio Grande 
"I can't say yes," she answered, "Your title cannot take There's a lad away in Texas, they call him Texas Jake It is long ago I promised that Texas lad to wed Only yesterday I wrote and it is thus the letter said." 
"My heart's tonight in Texas, though I'm far across the sea For the band is playing Dixie and it's where I long to be Dad says some Earl I'll marry, but you shall have my hand For my heart's tonight in Texas by the silv'ry Rio Grande" 
DT #841 Laws B23 From Carmer, Songs of the Rivers of America SOF apr97