In a little dance hall

Down in Texas
A slow waltz was playing

And as we moved around the floor
I could hear her soft voice saying

Hold me closer please, please do
Hold me closer all night long

Hold me closer, say you love me
Though we know some will

Say it's all wrong.
Then the music had ended

And the lights were turned out
The song and the dance were done,

And we walked together in the moonlight
To the House of the Rising Sun.

I held her close and said I love you
'Tween sheets the color of flame

I loved her then, I remember her now,
But I don't recall her name,


© Richard M. Bell June 1978