[Verse 1]

Come all you rovin' cowboys, bound to this lowly land

I'll tell to you a story, while you around me you will stand

I'm going to quit this wild west, it's a bleak and stormy plain

For I'm thinking I will leave you and ne'er return again

[Verse 2]

So sweetheart, my dear sweetheart, for sure I can't get along

I left my dear old father, my country and my home

I left my dear old mother, to weep and to mourn

For to be a rovin' cowboy, and with the cattle roam

[Verse 3]

I left my friends and home dear, with a manys a parting tear

My father followed sayin', "My boy, my boy, I fear

May God protect and guide you, and leave you not alone

Oh bring this rovin' cowboy, back to his native home."

[Verse 4]

This maiden fair and lovеly, sits closely by my side

Tonight she promisеd faithful, that she would be my bride

So I kissed away a flowin' tear, was dim to my black eyes

I'll ne'er forget my darlin' girl, I'll love her till I die

[Verse 5]

I've tried the straits of ramblin', I know their trail well

I've crossed the rocky mountain, where a manys a brave man fell

I've seen the far and distant plains, so lonely and so wild

But I'll ne'er forget my dear old home, nor my mother's sweetest smile