Don Edwards - 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 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 To drive dull cares away" When Jack began his singing His mind it wondered back He sang of a maiden Who waited for her Jack Your sweetheart waits for you, Jack Your sweetheart waits for you Out on the lonely prairie Where the skies are always blue Jack left the camp next morning Breathing his sweetheart's name I'll go and ask forgiveness For I know that I am to blame He crossed the old Red River And headed straight for town But 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 ask 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 prairie Where the skies are always blue