The Carter Family - Cowboy Jack lyrics

[Verse] He was just a lowly cowboy With a heart so brave and true He learned to love a maiden With eyes of heaven's own blue They learned to love each other And named their wedding day When a quarrel came between them And Jack he rode away He joined a band of cowboys And tried to forget her name But out on the lonely prairie She waits for him the same One night when work was finished Just at the close of day Someone said sing a song Jack T'will drive dull cares away When Jack began his singing His mind it wandered back And he sang of a lonely maiden Who waited for her Jack Jack left the camp next morning Breathing his sweetheart's name I'll go and ask forgiveness For I know I'm to blame But when he reached the prairie He found a new made mound His friends they sadly told him They'd laid his loved one down They said as she was dying She breathed her sweetheart's name And with her last breath asked them To tell him when he came Your sweetheart waits for you Jack Your sweetheart waits for you Out on the lonely prairie Where the skies are always blue