Come all you Texas Rangers, you may be, F C Bb C I'll you of some trouble that happened 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 rangers, I'm sure I wish you well.
2: When at the age of sixteen I joined this band, We from San Antonio down 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 ascending, it seemed to reach the sky. The first thought then came to me, "My has come to die!" And when the bugles sounded, our gave command, "To arms, to arms," he shouted, "and by horses stand."
4: I saw the Indians coming, I heard their yell. My feelings at the moment, no tongue an tell. I saw their lances, their arrows around me flew, all my strength had left me, and all my courage too.
5: We fought for full hours before the strife was o'er. The of dead and wounded, I've never seen before. And when the sun had risen, the Indians had fled. We loaded up our rifles and up our dead.
6: Now all of us wounded, our noble captain slain. And when the sun was shining across the plain, Six of the noblest rangers that roamed the West, Were buried by their comrades with in the breasts.
7: you have a mother, likewise a sister too. Perhaps you a sweetheart, to weep and mourn for you. If this be your position, although like to roam, I'll tell you experience, you'd better stay at home.