Come all you Rangers, wherever you may be, F C Bb C I'll tell you of some trouble that happened me. Bb F My name is extra, so that 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 informed us, he thought it right, "Before we reach the station, we'll have to fight!"
3: I saw the smoke ascending, it seemed to the sky. The thought 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 coming, I heard their awful 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 five full hours before the was o'er. The likes of dead and wounded, never seen 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 the sun was shining across the bloody plain, Six of the noblest that ever roamed the West, Were buried by their comrades arrows in the breasts.
7: Perhaps you have a mother, likewise a too. Perhaps you have a sweetheart, to weep and for you. If this be your position, you'd like to roam, tell you from experience, you'd better stay at home.