Texas Rangers - Ian & Sylvia

Come all ye 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 seventeen I joined the jolly band

We marched round San Antonio down to the Ryo Grande

Our Captain he informed us perhaps he thought it right

Before we 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 it seemed to reach the sky

And then the 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 human tongue can 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 for nine hours fully before the strife was o'er

The likes of dead and wounded I never saw before

And when 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 across that bloody plain

Sixteen the brave Rangers that never roamed the west

Were buried by their comrades with arrows in their breast

And now my song is ended I guess I've sung enough

The life of any Ranger you see is very tough

And if you have a mother that don't want you to roam

I'd advise you by experience you'd better stay at home