Alone in a great big city
I'm as lonesome as I can be
Far from the open spaces
And the home that is dear to me
It's years since I left this prairie
Where the coyotes roam at night
And howl while the stars they are blinking
And the moon shines clear and bright
I'm getting so old and feeble
My days they are nearly done
How I long for the prairie
Where the cattle and the mustangs run
Take me out where the cowboys
Singing the campfires gleam
Oh, how I long for Texas
That land of my boyhood dream