San Antonio Stroll

When I was a child down in South Caroline

Soon’s the Saturday sun went on down

My folks and sister would go and leave me home all alone

Going to that big square dance in town

Well my old radio would play that old opry show

So I never got lonesome or blue

I’d fall asleep in my chair and dream that I was right there

Just singing the whole night through

When my folks would come home

They’d be humming a song

Mama’d smile and say child don’t you know

There ain’t a thing in this world to make you

Fall in love girl  like the San Antonio Stroll

Well the day finally come when my mama said hun

It’s ’bout time you came with us as well

Well I had me a time yes I danced all the night

Till they rang that old cracked midnight bell

Then the lights went down low

The fiddler picked up his bow

And he played something stately and slow

And my sister Irene and her husband to be

They held hands and began to stroll

I’ve been away for a while but it still brings a smile

When I think of the way that it goes

Now I’ll sing it to you just so we both can do

That old San Antonio    Stroll

Now I’ll sing it to you just so we both can do

That old San Antonio Stroll