She was a girl on a wagon train
The train got lost in a summer storm.
They coudln'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,
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 the beat the lonely nights in Lonesome
Dove, Lonesome Dove.