Cowbay Jack - The Carter Family

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