I often ask for lyrics on the web, and I get them So I was wondering about hearing certain songs.
And blushingly, I’ll admit that the song that started this thinking, is San Antonio Rose.
When I was a little boy, the kid next door had a record player and often he’d play that song, sung by who knows. I could never hear the lyrics well enough to meorize them, and now, 6.5 decades later, I got 'em. But where can I hear it sung?
There are several different versions on youtube right now.
Amazon.com has 30 second samples for most of the cd’s it sells. If you just want your memory jogged, that would be good enough.
For example on this page you will find the Greatest Version Ever of San Antonio Rose
You could try http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/site/music-plus/
Thank you K364, but I went there already, and song snatches just don’t do it for me. (On the other hand, feminine snatches do. 
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Allofmp3 used to have 90 second samples, but I see they are cut back to 30.
According to the FAQ:
Thank you everyone. I found one recording (by Jeff King) but in the process, I bounced around to all your recommendations, that I don’t know where it came from. :smack:
The odd thing is that this song is meant to be sung tenderly. But most versions I came across were jazzed up (if we can say that for Western songs). The effect is almost comical.
But read these lyrics to see how wrong the upbeat-ists are:
Deep within my heart lies a melody a song of old San Antone
Where in dreams I lived 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 and all your splendor know 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 dreams empty words I know still live in my heart all alone
And that moonlit pass beside the Alamo and Rose my Rose of San Antone
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And you thought La Boheme had some tearful tunes? 
This one’s kind of cute
And one of the violinists plays left handed. Ain’t never seen that before.