She was a girl on a wagon train

Headed west across the plains

The train got lost in a summer storm

They couldn't move west and they couldn't go home

Then she saw him riding through the rain

He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train

And she looked down and her heart was gone

The train went west but she stayed on

In lonesome dove

A farmer's daughter with a gentle hand

A blooming rose in a bed of sand

She loved the man who wore a star

A texas ranger known near and far

So they got married and they had a child

But times were touch and the west was wild

So it was no surprise the day she learned

That her Texas man would not return

To lonesome dove

Back to back with the rio grande

A christian woman in the devil's land

She learned the language and she learned to fight

But she never learned how to beat the lonely nights

In lonesome dove lonesome dove

She watched her boy grow to a man

He had an angel's heart and the devil's hand

He wore his star for all to see

He was a Texas lawman legacy

The one day word blew into town

It seemed the men that shot his father down

Had robbed a bank in Cherico

The only thing 'tween them and Mexico

Was lonesome dove

The shadows stretched across the land

As the shots rang out down the rio grande

And when the smoke had finally cleared the street

The men lay at the ranger's feet

But legend tells to this very day

That shots were comin' from an alleyway

Though no one knows who held the gun

There ain't no doubt if you ask someone

In lonesome dove

Back to back with the rio grande

A christian woman in the devil's land

She learned the language and she learned to fight

But she never learned how to beat the lonely nights

In lonesome dove lonesome dove