OCR Text |
Show THE TEXAS RANGER. Come all you Texas rangers, . Wherever you may be, Come on my jolly rovers And listen unto me . My name is nothing extra, The truth to you I'll tell, For I'm a Texas ranger, QAnd I wish you all as well . It was at the age of sixteen, I joined this jolly band, We marched from San Antonia All down the Rio Grande. Our captain he informed us- Perhaps he thought it right- . "Before we reach our station, Brave boys you'll have to fight . We saw the Indians coming, We heard them give ayell, My feelings at that moment No human tongue could tell, I thought of my dear mother, Whose tears to me did say, "My boy, they all are strangers,. At home you'd better stay." But she being old and childish, I thought she didn't know What it was to be a ranger, So a ranger I did go. We saw the dust arising, It nearly reached the sky My feeling at that moment, Is now my time to die? Our bugle it then sounded, Our captain gave command, "To arms! To arras!" he shouted, "And by your horses stand!" We fought for full nine hours Before the strife gave o'er, So many dead and wounded, I ne'er had seen before. ( I 4 Five hundred noble rangers, As ever trod the west, Lay dying in the evening With arrows through their breasts Perhaps you have a mother Likewise a sister too Perhaps you have a sweetheart To weep and mourn for you; Be this your situation, Although you expect to roam, I have tanght you by experience You'd better stay at home. |