Lonesome Dove

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 ridin' 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 tough 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 into 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 that shot his father down
 Had robbed a bank in Jerico
 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