Cowboy Jack

Cat. #1223 (MFH #845) - As sung by Mrs. Claudie Richardson and Glenda Sue Richardson, Mountain View, Arkansas on August 31, 1971

VERSE 1
He was a lonely cowboy
With a heart so brave an' true
And learned to love a maiden
With eyes of Heavenly blue

VERSE 2
They learned to love each other
They named their wedding day
When a quarrel came between them
And Jack, he rode away

VERSE 3
He joined a band of cowboys
An' tried to forget her name
But out on th lonely prairie
She waits for him th same

VERSE 4
One night when work was finished
Just at th dawn of th day
Someone said, sing a song Jack
Will drive you quilt away

VERSE 5
When Jack began his singing
His mind did wonder back
For he sung of a maiden
Who waited for her Jack

VERSE 6
Out on th lonely prairie
Where th skies are always blue
Your sweetheart's waiting for you, Jack
Your sweetheart waits for you

VERSE 7
Jack left camp next morning
Breathing his sweethearts name
I'll go an' ask forgiveness
For I know I'm to blame

VERSE 8
But when he reached th prairie
He found a maiden's grave
An' friends they sadly told him
They laid his loved one down

VERSE 9
An' when she was a dying
She'd breathed her sweetheart's name
An' asked them with her last breath
To tell him when he came

VERSE 10
Your sweetheart's waiting for you, Jack
Your sweetheart's waiting for you
Out on th lonely prairie
Where th skies are always blue

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