Come all you Texas Rangers, you may be, F C Bb C I'll tell you of some trouble that unto me. Bb F My name is nothing extra, so that I not tell, Bb C F Ab Bb C But here's to all good rangers, I'm I wish you well.
2: When at the age of sixteen I joined this band, We marched from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. Our captain he informed us, perhaps he it right, "Before we reach the station, surely have to fight!"
3: I saw the smoke ascending, it to reach the sky. The first then came to me, "My time has come to die!" And the bugles sounded, our captain gave command, "To arms, to arms," he shouted, "and by your stand."
4: I saw the Indians coming, I heard their yell. My feelings at the moment, no tongue an tell. I saw their glittering lances, their around me flew, Till all my had left me, and all my courage too.
5: We fought for five full before the strife was o'er. The likes of dead and wounded, I've never before. And when the sun had risen, the they had fled. We up our rifles and counted up our dead.
6: Now all of us were wounded, our captain slain. And when the sun was across the bloody plain, Six of the noblest rangers that roamed the West, Were buried by their comrades arrows in the breasts.
7: Perhaps you have a mother, a sister too. you have a sweetheart, to weep and mourn for you. If this be your position, you'd like to roam, I'll tell you experience, you'd better stay at home.