Come all you Rangers, wherever 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 I will not tell, Bb C F Ab Bb C But here's to all good rangers, I'm sure I you well.
2: When at the age of sixteen I joined jolly band, We marched San Antonio down to the Rio Grande. Our he informed us, perhaps 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 first thought then to me, "My time has come to die!" And when the sounded, our captain gave command, "To arms, to arms," he shouted, "and by horses stand."
4: I saw the Indians coming, I their awful yell. My at the moment, no human tongue an tell. I saw their glittering lances, their around me flew, Till all my strength had left me, and all my too.
5: We fought for five full 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 the bloody plain, Six of the noblest rangers that ever the West, Were buried by comrades with arrows in the breasts.
7: Perhaps you have a mother, likewise a too. you have a sweetheart, to weep and mourn for you. If this be your position, although you'd to roam, I'll you from experience, you'd better stay at home.