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