Intro: G
Verse:
G
She was a girl on a wagon train
C G D G
Headed west across the plains
Em C D
The train got lost in a summer storm
Em C D
They couldn't move west and they couldn't go home
G
Then she saw him ridin' through the rain
C G D G
He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train
Em C D
And she looked down and her heart was gone
Em C D
The train went west but she stayed on
G
In Lonesome Dove
Verse:
G
A farmer's daughter with a gentle hand
C G D G
A blooming rose in a bed of sand
Em C D
She loved the man who wore a star
Em C D
A Texas Ranger known near and far
G
So they got married and they had a child
C G D G
But times were tough and the west was wild
Em C D
So it was no surprise the day she learned
Em C D
That her Texas man would not return
G G D
To Lonesome Dove
Chorus:
Em G
Back to back with the Rio Grande
C G D
A Christian woman in the devil's land
Em D
She learned the language and she learned to fight
C Am A H C E D
But she never learned how to beat the lonely nights
G
In Lonesome Dove, Lonesome Dove
Verse:
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
Then one day word blew into town
It seemed the men who shot his father down
Had robbed a bank in Cherico
The only thing 'tween them and Mexico
Was Lonsome Dove
Verse:
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
'Through no one knows who held the gun
There ain't no doubt if you ask someone
in Lonesome Dove
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