She was a girl on a wagon train
  Haded west across the plains
  The train got lost in a summer storm
  They couldn't move west and they couldn't go home
  Then she saw him ridin' through the rain
  He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train
  And she looked down and her heart was gone
  The train went west but she stayed on
  In Lonesome Dove
  
  A farmer's daughter with a gentle hand
  A blooming rose in a bed of sand
  She loved the man who wore a star
  A Texas Ranger known near and far
  So they got married and they had a child
  But times were touch and the West was wild
  So it was no surprise the day she learned
  That her Texas man would not return
  To Lonesome Dove
  
  Back to back with the Rio Grande
  A Christian woman in the devil's land
  She learned the language and she learned to fight
  But she never learned how to beat the lonely nights
  In Lonesome Dove, Lonesome Dove
  
  She watched her boy grow into a man
  He had an angel's heart and the devil's hand
  He wore his star for all to see
  He was a Texas lawman legacy
  The one day word blew into town
  It seemed the men that shot his father down
  Had robbed a bank in Cherico
  The only thing 'tween them and Mexico
  Was Lonesome Dove
  
  The shadows stretched across the land
  As the shots rang out down the Rio Grande
  And when the smoke had finally cleared the street
  The men lay at the ranger's feet
  But legend tells to this very day
  That shots were comin' from an alleyway
  Though no one knows who held the gun
  There ain't no doubt if you ask someone
  In Lonesome Dove
  Back to back with the Rio Grande
  A Christian woman in the devil's land
  She learned the language and she learned to fight
  But she never learned how to beat the lonely nights
  In Lonesome Dove, Lonesome Dove