[Verse 1]


She was a girl

 on a wagon tr

ain
            
headed west ac

        
ross the plain

s.
            
The train got 

             
lost in a summ

   
er storm.
            
They couldn't 

              
move west and 

             
they couldn't 

   
go home
              
Then she saw h

   
im ridin' thro

ugh 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 L

   
onesome Dove.


[Verse 2]


A farmer's dau

ghter with a g

entle hand,
            
A blooming ros

             
e in a bed of 


sand.
            
She loved the 

             
man who wore a

 
 star,
            
A Texas Ranger

             
 known near an

  
d far.
              
So they got ma

 
rried and they

 had a child.
             
But times were

            
 tough and Wes

      
t was wild.
            
So it was no s

             
urprise the da

      
y she learned
            
That her Texas

              
 man would not

           
 return, to Lo

  
nesome Dove.


[Chorus]

            
Back to back w

             
ith the Rio Gr

             
ande, a Christ

              
ian woman in t

          
he devil's lan

#
d.
            
She learned th

              
e language and

     
 she learned t

o fight, but s

he
             
never learned 

              
how to beat th

            
e lonely night

  
s,
            
In Lonesome Do

       
ve, Lonesome D

ove


[Verse 3]


She watched he

r boy grow int

o a man.
            
He had an ange

              
l's heart and 

           
the devil's ha

nd.
            
He wore his st

             
ar for all to 


see.
            
He was a Texas

           
 lawman legacy

.
             
Then one day w

ord blew into 

town.
             
It seemed the 

            
man that shot 

    
his father dow

n
            
Had robbed a b

           
ank in Jericho

.
            
Tho only thing

             
 'tween them a

       
nd Mexico
       
Was Lonesome D

ove.


[Verse 4]


The shadows st

retched across

 the land
            
As the shots r

              
ang out down t

      
he Rio Grande.
            
And when the s

             
moke had final

              
ly cleared the

 
 street,
            
The men lay at

             
 the ranger's 


feet.
           
But legend tel

ls to this ver

y day
             
That shots wer

             
e comin' from 

       
an alleyway.
            
Though no one 

             
knows who held

     
 the gun,
            
There ain't no

              
 doubt if you 

       
ask someone
      
In Lonesome Do

ve.


[Chorus]

            
Back to back w

             
ith the Rio Gr

             
ande, a Christ

              
ian woman in t

          
he devil's lan

#
d.
            
She learned th

              
e language and

     
 she learned t

o fight, but s

he
             
never learned 

              
how to beat th

            
e lonely night

  
s,
            
In Lonesome Do

       
ve, Lonesome D

ove