Come all you Texas Rangers, you may be, F C Bb C tell 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 good rangers, I'm sure I you well.
2: When at the age of sixteen I joined jolly band, We marched from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. Our captain he informed us, he thought it right, "Before we reach the station, we'll surely to fight!"
3: I saw the ascending, it seemed to reach the sky. The first then came to me, "My time 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 awful yell. My feelings at the moment, no human an tell. I saw their glittering lances, their around me flew, Till all my strength had me, and all my courage too.
5: We fought for five hours before the strife was o'er. The of dead and wounded, I've never seen before. And when the sun had risen, the they had fled. We loaded up our rifles and up our dead.
6: Now all of us were wounded, our captain slain. And when the sun was shining across the plain, Six of the rangers that ever roamed the West, Were buried by their comrades with 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 position, although you'd like to roam, I'll tell you from experience, you'd stay at home.