Come all you Rangers, wherever you may be, F C Bb C I'll tell you of some trouble happened unto me. Bb F My name is extra, so that I will not tell, Bb C F Ab Bb C But here's to all rangers, I'm sure 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 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 their awful yell. My at the moment, no human tongue an tell. I saw their lances, their arrows around me flew, Till all my strength had me, and all my courage too.
5: We fought for five full hours before the 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, buried by their comrades with arrows in the breasts.
7: Perhaps you have a mother, a sister too. you have a sweetheart, to weep and mourn for you. If this be your position, although like to roam, I'll you from experience, you'd better stay at home.