Cat. #1427 (MFH #845) - As sung by Paula Ball, Monett, Missouri on January 19, 1967
VERSE 1
He was just a lonely cowboy
With a heart so brave an' true
An' he learned to love a maiden
With eyes of Heaven's own blue
VERSE 2
They learned to love, each other
An' they named their wedding day
When a quarrel came between them
An' Jack, he rode away
VERSE 3
He joined a band of cowboys
An' tried to forget her name
But out on that lonely prairie
She waits for him th same
CHORUS:
Your sweetheart waits for you, Jack
Your sweetheart waits for you
Out on that lonely prairie
Where th skies are always blue
VERSE 4
One night when work was finished
Just at th close of day
Someone said, sing a song Jack
It will drive dull cares away
VERSE 5
When Jack begin his singing
His mind did wander back
For he sang of a maiden
Who waited for her Jack
VERSE 6
Jack left th camp, next morning
Breathing his sweethearts name
He'd go an' ask forgiveness
For he knew he was to blame
VERSE 7
But when he reached th prairie
He found a new made mound
And his friends, they sadly told him
They had laid hs loved one down
VERSE 8
They said, when she was dying
She had breathed her sweethearts name
An' had asked them with her last breath
To tell him when he came