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 I will 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 I joined this jolly band, We marched from San down to the Rio Grande. Our captain he us, perhaps he thought it right, "Before we the station, we'll surely have to fight!"
3: I saw the smoke ascending, it seemed to the sky. The first thought came to me, "My time has come to die!" And when the sounded, our captain gave command, "To arms, to arms," he shouted, "and by your stand."
4: I saw the Indians coming, I heard awful yell. My feelings at the moment, no tongue an tell. I saw their glittering lances, arrows around me flew, all my strength had left me, and all my courage too.
5: We fought for five full hours before the was o'er. The likes of dead and wounded, I've never before. And when the sun had risen, the they had fled. We loaded up our and counted up our dead.
6: Now all of us were wounded, our noble slain. And the sun was shining across the bloody plain, Six of the noblest rangers that roamed the West, Were buried by their with arrows in the breasts.
7: Perhaps you have a mother, likewise a too. Perhaps you a sweetheart, to weep and mourn for you. If be your position, although you'd like to roam, tell you from experience, you'd better stay at home.