The Face On The Barroom Floor Poem Lyrics

Lyrics to the face on the barroom floor by hank snow.

The face on the barroom floor poem lyrics.

Hank snow face on the barroom floor lyrics. The face on the barroom floor lyrics. Written in ballad form it tells the story of an artist ruined by love. Having lost his beloved madeline to another man he has turned to drink.

He then offers to sketch madeline s face on the floor of the bar. In the poem he enters a bar and tells his story to the bartender and to the assembled crowd. The wind has blown it in. Top lyrics of 2011.

Where did it come from someone said. Twas a balmy summer evening and a goodly crowd was therewhich wellnigh filled joes barroom on the corner of the square. A later version was adapted from the titus poem by hugh antoine d arcy in 1887 and first published in the new york dispatch. The face on the barroom floor poem by hugh antoine d arcy.

The face on the barroom floor is a poem written by hugh antoine d arcy in 1887. The face upon the barroom floor aka the face on the floor and the face on the barroom floor is a poem originally written by the poet john henry titus in 1872.