Sheet Music for French Horn Solo
The Texas Rangers was an armed militia who protected cattle stock and fought other battles along the Texas-Mexico border. Their activities were often of dubious morality, especially with regard to native Americans. This dramatic song tells of the brutal reality of one such encounter.
Backing track:
1. Come all you Texas Rangers,
wherever you may be,
I hope you’ll pay attention
and listen unto me,
My name, it’s nothing extry,
the truth to you I’ll tell,
I am a roving Ranger.
I’m sure you wish me well.
2. T’was at the age of seventeen
I joined that jolly band
We marched from San Antonio
Down to th Rio Grande
Our captain, he informed us
I’m sure he thought it right
Saying, boys before you reach that station
Perhaps you’ll have to fight
3. I heard our captain, shouting
I heard him give command
To arms, to arms, he shouted
And by your horses stand
I saw those Indains coming
I heard them give the yell
My feelings at that moment
No human tongue can tell
4. I saw their glittering lances
While the arrows ’round me sailed
My heart, it sank within me
My courage almost failed
I saw the smoke ascending
It seemed to reach th sky
I saw that at that moment
My time had come to die
5. I thought of what my Mother said,
When in tears, she spoke to me
To you they are all strangers
You’d better stay with me
I thought, she was old and childish
The best she did not know
My heart was bent on roving
And I was sure to go
6. We fought them for nine hours
Before that fight was o’er
The like of dead and wounded
I’d never seen before
Five of th brave of Rangers
As ever saw the west
Was buried on the plains
We laid them there to rest
7. Perhaps, you have a Mother
Likewise, a sister too
Likewise, a darling sweetheart
To mourn and greave for you
Well, if your in this condition
Now, I know you’d like to roam
But I’ll tell you by experience
You’d better stay at home
