Texas Rangers-Rebecca Pidgeon

Texas Rangers - Rebecca Pidgeon Come all you Texas Rangers wherever you may be I'll tell you of some troubles that happened unto me My name is nothing extra so that I will not tell And here's to all you Rangers I'm sure I wish you well Was at the age of twenty I joined the ranger band We marched from San Antonio down to the Ryo Grande Our Captain he informed us perhaps he thought it right Before you reach the station boys you'll surely have to fight And when the bugle sounded our Captain gave command To arms to arms he shouted and by your horses stand I saw the smoke ascending and it seemed to reach the sky The first thought it struck me My time had come to die I saw the Indians coming I heard them give a yell My feelings at that moment no tongue can ever tell I saw their glittering lances their arrows 'round me flew And all my strength had left me and all my courage too We fought them for nine hours before the strife was over The likes of dead and wounded I never saw before And as the sun had risen and the Indians they had fled We loaded up our rifles and counted up our dead And all of us were wounded our noble Captain slain The sun was shining sadly all on that flooded plain Sixteen has the brave Rangers that ever roamed the west Were buried by their comrades with arrows in their breast I see the fruits of ramlen I know his hardships well I've been in the rocky mountains Rode down the streets of hell I've been in the great south west poise Where the wild apache roam And I can tell you from experience you'll better off at home And now my song is ended I sure I've sung enough The life of a Ranger boys you see is very tough And here's to all you ladies I'm sure I wish you well I'm bound to go all raging so ladies fair you well