Tom: G

G 
She was a girl on a wagon train
C      G          D             G
Headed west a-cross the plains.
      Em                    C           D
The  train got lost in a summer storm.
       Em                          C        D
They  couldn't move west and they couldn't go home.  
                  G                        
Then she saw him ridin' through the rain.
          C              G            D                G
He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train.
      Em                        C
And  she looked down and her heart was gone.
      Em                     C        D
The  train went west but she stayed   on in Lonesome Dove.


G 
A farmer's daughter with a gentle hand,
C      G          D             G
A blooming rose in a bed of sand;
      Em           C           D
She loved the man who wore a star,
       Em         C        D
A Texas Ranger known near and far.
                  G   
So they got married and they had a child.
       C        G       D            G
But times were tough and West was wild.
       Em                        C
So it was no surprise the day she learned
      Em                     C     
That her Texas man would not return
D
To Lonesome Dove.  

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 Em                   G               C                       G      D/F#
Back to back with the Rio Grande, a  Christian woman in the devil's land.
       Em                          Bm
She  learned the language and she learned to fight, but she 
C                                Am            D         D   G
never learned how the beat the  lonely nights     in  Lonesome Dove,
  D   G
Lonesome Dove.


G 
She watched her boy grow to a man.
C      G          D             G
He had an angel's heart and the devil's hand.
   Em        C           D
He wore his star for all to see.
       Em          C           D
He was a Texas lawman legacy.
                  G   
Then one day word blew into town.
       C        G       D            G
It seemed the men that shot his father down
      Em             C
Had robbed a bank in Cherico.
      Em                     C   
Tho only thing 'tween them and Mexico
D
Was Lonesome Dove.


G 
The shadows stretched across the land
C      G          D             G
As the shots rang out down the Rio Grande.
      Em                    C           D
And when the smoke had finally cleared the street,
       Em           C           D
The men lay at the ranger's feet.
                  G   
But legend tells to this very day
       C        G       D            G
That shots were comin' from an alleyway.
      Em                        C
"Though no one knows who held the gun,
      Em                     C   
There ain't no doubt if you ask someone
D
In Lonesome Dove.  

**Chorus