Listen to Cowboy Jack song with lyrics from The Carter Family

Cowboy Jack

The Carter Family1 Aug 2022

Cowboy Jack Lyrics

He was just a lonely 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 pa-rairie

She waits for him the same

One night when work was finished

 

Just at the close of day

 

Someone said sing a song Jack

 

We'll drive those cares away

 

When he reached the pa-rairie

He found a new-made mound

 

His friends they sadly told him

 

They laid his loved one down

 

They said as she was dying

 

She breathed her sweetheart's name

 

And asked them with her last breath

 

To tell him when he came

 

Your sweetheart waits for you Jack

 

Your sweetheart waits for you

 

Out on the lonely pa-rairie

 

Where the skies are always blue

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