Lyrics to
San Antonio Rose

This version of San Antonio Rose was released by John Denver in 1976.

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Deep within my heart lies a melody, a song of old San Antone,
where in dreams I live with a memory beneath the stars all alone.
It was there I found beside the Alamo, enchantment strange as the blue up above.
A moonlit pass that only she would know still hears my broken song of love.

Moon in all your splendor, hear only my heart. Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone.
Lips so sweet and tender like petals falling apart, speak once again of my love, my own.
Broken song, empty words I know still live in my heart all alone.
For the moonlit pass by the Alamo and Rose, my Rose of San Antone.

Moon in all your splendor, hear only my heart. Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone.
Lips so sweet and tender like petals falling apart, speak once again of my love, my own.
Broken song, empty words I know still live in my heart all alone.
For the moonlit pass by the Alamo and Rose, my Rose of San Antone.

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John Denver has released many songs over the years besides San Antonio Rose. John Denver released songs from 1969 to 1998 spanning across albums like Rhymes And Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, Poems, Prayers And Promises, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain Christmas, An Evening With John Denver, Windsong, Spirit, I Want To Live, A Christmas Together, John Denver, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds, Seasons Of The Heart, Rocky Mountain Holiday, It's About Time, Dreamland Express, One World, Higher Ground, The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Christmas, Like A Lullaby, Different Directions, All Aboard!, and Forever, John. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Denver.

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About Lyrics and San Antonio Rose by John Denver

The lyrics to San Antonio Rose are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by John Denver in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to San Antonio Rose are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by John Denver and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for San Antonio Rose back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to San Antonio Rose by John Denver in a number of ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to San Antonio Rose" means the words set to the music of San Antonio Rose, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to San Antonio Rose and the lyrics to San Antonio Rose are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to San Antonio Rose, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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