SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Hank Snow lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Hank Snow Lyrics for Song: The Face on the Barroom Floor Lyrics for Album: The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994] (Robert W. Service) Twas a balmy summer evening and a goodly crowd was there Which well-nigh filled Joe's barroom on the corner of the square And as songs and witty stories came through the door A vagabond crept slowly in and posed upon the floor. Where did it come from someone said the wind has blown it in What does it want another cried some whiskey rum or gin Here Toby seek him if your stomach's equal to the work I wouldn't touch him with a fork he's filthy as a Turk. This baninage the poor wretch took with stocial good grace In fact he smiled as though he though he'd struck the proper place Come boys I know there'd kindly hearts among so good a crowd To be in such good company would make a deacon proud. Give me a drink that's what I want I'm out of funds you know When I had cash to treat the gang this hand was never slow What you laugh as though you thought this pocket never held a sov I once was fixed as well my boys as any one of you. There thanks that's braced me nicely God bless you one and all Next time I pass this good saloon I'll make another call Give you a song no I can't do that my singing days are past My voice is cracked my throat's worn out and my lungs are going fast. Say give me another whiskey and I'll tell you what I'll do I'll tell you a funny story and a fact I promise too That I was ever a decent man not one of you would think But I was some four or five years back say give me another drink. Fill her up Joe I want to put some life into my frame Such little drinks to a bum like me are miserably tame Five fingers there that's the scheme and corking whiskey too Well here's luck boys and landlord my best regards to you. You've treated me pretty kindly and I'd like to tell you how I came to be the dirty sot you see before you now As I told you once I was a man with muscle frame and health And but for a blunder ought to have made considerable wealth. I was a painter not one that daubed on bricks and wood But an artist and for my age was rated pretty good I worked hard at my canvas and was bidding fair to rise For gradually I saw the star of fame before my eyes. I made a picture perhaps you've seen 'tis called the Chase of Fame It brought me fifteen hundred pounds and added to my name And then I met a woman now comes the funny part With eyes that petrified my brain and sunk into my heart. Why don't you laugh 'tis funny that the vagabond you see Could ever love a woman and a expect her love for me But 'twas so and for a month or two her smiles were freely given And when he loving lips touched mine it carried me to heaven. Did you ever see a woman for whom your soul you'd give With a form like the Milo Venus too beautiful to live With eyes that would beat the Koh-i-noor and a wealth of chesnut nair If so 'twas she for there never was another half so fair. I was working on a portrait one afternoon in May Of a fair haired boy a friend of mine who lived across the way And Madeline admired it and much to my surprise Said that she'd like to know the man that had such dreamy eyes. It didn't take long to know him and before the month had flown My friend had stolen my darling and I was left alone And eve a year of misery had possed above my head The jewel I had treasured so had tarnished and was dead. That's why I took to drink boys why I never saw you smile I thought you'd be amused and laughing all the while Why what's the matter friend there's a teardrop in your eye Come laugh like me 'tis only babes and woman that should cry. Say boys if you give me just another whiskey I'll be glad And I'll draw right here a picture of the face that drove me mad Give me that piece of chalk with which you mark the baseball score You shall see the lovely Madeline upon the barroom floor. Another drink and with chalk in hand the vagabond began To sketch a face that well might buy the soul of any man Then as he placed another lock upon the shapely head With a fearful shriek he leaped and fell across the picture... Album Lyrics: The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994] Hank Snow "The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994]" 1. I Love You Because 2. I Care No More 3. Fraulein 4. Return to Me 5. Mansion on the Hill 6. Limbo Rock 7. Tammy 8. Wheels 9. Tiptoeing 10. Poison Love 11. Hold Me Tight 12. I Saw the Light 13. Difficult 14. Little Stranger (In a Manger) 15. Christmas Roses 16. Silent Night 17. C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s 18. White Christmas 19. Frosty the Snowman 20. God Is My Santa Claus 21. I Ain't Been Anywhere 22. Rome Wasn't Built in a Day 23. Invisible Hands 24. Sweet Hour of Prayer 25. Jesus Wept 26. These Things Shall Pass 27. His Hands 28. Farther Along 29. Gloryland March 30. I Saw a Man 31. This Train 32. I See Jesus 33. Shopworn 34. I'm Glad I'm on the Inside Looking Out 35. I'll Go Marching Into Glory 36. How Big Is God 37. Lord's Way of Saying Goodnight 38. Promised to John 39. My Adobe Hacienda 40. No Letter Today 41. I Dreamed of An Old Love Affair 42. For Sale 43. Rose of Old Monterey 44. Moonlight and Skies 45. You and My Old Guitar 46. Down the Old Road to Home 47. I'm Sorry We Met 48. Teardrops in My Heart 49. Ridin' Home 50. Heartbreak Trail 51. Cool Water 52. Tumbling Tumbleweeds 53. At the Rainbow's End 54. Chant of the Wanderer 55. On the Rhythm Range 56. Following the Sun All Day 57. Blue Side of Lonesome 58. Green, Green Grass of Home 59. Once More You're Mine Again 60. There Goes My Everything 61. All the Time 62. It Kinda Reminds Me of Me 63. Blue, Blue Day 64. He Dropped the World in My Hands 65. Call of the Wild 66. There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere 67. You're the Reason 68. It's a Little More Like Heaven 69. Galway Bay 70. Lili Marlene 71. Geisha Girl 72. Melba from Melbourne 73. Cuba Rhumba 74. Queen of Draw Poker Club 75. Now Is the Hour 76. In the Misty Moonlight 77. From a Jack to a King 78. She Wears My Ring 79. Mary Ann Regrets 80. White Silver Sands 81. Lonesome 7-7203 82. Gonna Find Me a Bluebird 83. Sweet Lies 84. Handcuffed to Love 85. Bummin' Around 86. I've Cried a Mile 87. You Take the Future (And I'll Take the Past) 88. Flying South 89. Miami Snow 90. At the First Fall of Snow 91. You're as Welcome as the Flowers in May 92. January 93. Springtime in the Rockies 94. Roses in the Snow 95. Beyond the Reef 96. Trade Winds 97. Don't Sing Aloha When I Go 98. Oahu Rose 99. The Wayward Wind 100. Walking the Last Mile 101. Old Rover 102. Put Your Arms Around Me 103. Little Joe 104. Cross the Brazos at Waco 105. Nuevo Laredo 106. Adios Amigo 107. Maria Elena 108. Senorita Rosalita 109. Dangerous Dan McGrew 110. Ballad of One Eyed Mike 111. My Friends 112. I Wish My Heart Could Talk 113. Wreck of the Old '97 114. Crazy Little Train of Love 115. Blue Yodel, No. 10 116. Father Time and Mother Love 117. Rockin' Rollin' Ocean [With Wave Effect] 118. Rockin' Rollin' Ocean [Without Wave Effect] 119. Casey's Washerwoman Boogie [Instrumental] 120. Hawaiian Sunset [Instrumental] 121. The Man Who Robbed the Bank at Santa Fe 122. The Texas Plains 123. Patanio (The Pride of the Plains) 124. A Legend in My Time 125. A Petal from a Faded Rose 126. The Change of the Tide 127. Mockin' Bird Hill 127. If It's Wrong to Love You 127. The Blue Canadian Rockies 127. Sonny Boy [Instrumental] 127. Unchained Melody [Instrumental] 127. Beautiful Dreamer [Instrumental] 127. Brahms' Lullaby [Instrumental] 127. Blue Tango [Instrumental] 127. Dark Moon [Instrumental] 127. I Can't Stop Loving You [Instrumental] 127. The Convict and the Rose [Instrumental] 127. The Waltz You Saved for Me 127. Lay My Head Beneath a Rose [Instrumental] 127. Whispering Hope [Instrumental] 127. Sentimental Journey [Instrumental] 127. Am I Losing You? [Instrumental] 127. I Get the Blues When It Rains [Instrumental] 127. Sweet Marie [Instrumental] 127. Birth of the Blues [Instrumental] 127. The Christmas Cannonball 127. A Letter to Santa Claus 127. The Face on the Barroom Floor 127. The Cremation of Sam McGee 127. The Spell of the Yukon 127. The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill 127. The Last Mile of the Way 127. Dear Lord, Remember Me 127. The Runt 127. The Prisoner's Dream 127. Mother I Thank You (For the Bible You Gave) 127. Rocking Alone in an Old Rocking Chair 127. To You Sweetheart, Aloha 127. My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii 127. On the Beach in Waikiki 127. Pearly Shells 127. The Whispering Tradewinds [Instrumental] 127. Among My Souvenirs [Instrumental] 127. The Seasons 127. All Nite Cafe 127. The Tip of My Fingers 127. A Wound Time Can't Erase 127. The Name of the Game Was Love