Come all you Texas Rangers, you may be, F C Bb C I'll tell you of some trouble happened unto me. Bb F My name is nothing extra, so that I not tell, Bb C F Ab Bb C But to all good rangers, I'm sure I wish you well.
2: When at the age of sixteen I this jolly band, We marched from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. Our captain he us, perhaps he thought it right, "Before we reach the station, we'll surely to fight!"
3: I saw the smoke ascending, it seemed to the sky. The first then came to me, "My time has come to die!" And when the bugles sounded, our captain command, "To arms, to arms," he shouted, "and by your stand."
4: I saw the Indians coming, I their awful yell. My feelings at the moment, no human an tell. I saw their lances, their arrows around me flew, Till all my strength had left me, and all my too.
5: We fought for full hours 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 ever roamed the West, Were buried by their comrades arrows in the breasts.
7: Perhaps you a mother, likewise a sister too. you have a sweetheart, to weep and mourn for you. If this be your position, although like to roam, tell you from experience, you'd better stay at home.