Blackboard Of My Heart
by Lyle R. Gaston and Hank Thompson
"This was about
1951 and I had just started writing songs. I got the
idea from a waitress who worked where I ate breakfast
every morning. She came over to the table one day and
said, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a song for you.
How about "my tears have washed 'I love you' from the
blackboard of my heart"? And I said, 'Come to think of
it, I guess it does.' I got the first verse and the
chorus written right away. Then it took me almost two
years to get a second verse for it." —Lyle Gaston
Blackboard Of My Heart
When I was young and went to school, they taught me how
to write
To take the chalk and make a mark, and hope it turns out
right
Well, that's the way it is with love and what you did to
me
I wrote it so that you'd know I was yours eternally.
But my tears have washed "I love you" from the
blackboard of my heart
It's too late to clean the slate and make another start
I'm satisfied the way things are, although we're far
apart
My tears have washed "I love you" from the blackboard of
my heart.
If you'd been true the way you should, and not have gone
astray
Those tears would not have fallen down and washed the
words away
No need to talk, for if the chalk should write these
words again
It will be for someone else, not things that might have
been.
