[Verse 1]

Your daddy runs sheep and my uncle runs cattle

Nothing can keep us out of this battle they wage

As it burns up the range

Till no man is left In the saddle

[Verse 2]

Your ranch is upstream and they dammed up the water

Thirsty cows scream for my uncle to slaughter the sheep

While your daddy's asleep

And I do the same for his daughter

[Bridge]

If I had my own way

We would be together back in Pittsburgh

It's the only town east of the river I know

And I feel kinda bad

Bringin' our grief upon this poor old farmer's house

But we ain't got nowhere else to go

[Verse 3]

Three years on this range since they started the range war

Nothing has changed except maybe change for the worst

If I'd married you first

There might not have been any range war

You wouldn't be lost to the range war