Come all you Texas Rangers, you may be, F C Bb C I'll tell you of some trouble that happened me. Bb F My name is nothing extra, so that I not tell, Bb C F Ab Bb C But to all good rangers, I'm sure I wish you well.
2: When at the age of I joined this jolly band, We marched San Antonio down to the Rio Grande. Our captain he informed us, he thought it right, "Before we reach the station, surely have to fight!"
3: I saw the smoke ascending, it seemed to the sky. The first thought then came to me, "My time has to die!" And the bugles sounded, our captain gave command, "To arms, to arms," he shouted, "and by horses stand."
4: I saw the coming, I heard their awful yell. My at the moment, no human tongue an tell. I saw their glittering lances, arrows around me flew, Till all my had left me, and all my courage too.
5: We fought for full hours before the strife was o'er. The likes of dead and wounded, I've seen before. And the sun had risen, the Indians 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 rangers that ever the West, Were buried by comrades with arrows 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, you'd like to roam, I'll you from experience, you'd better stay at home.