Fugitive's Lament

                                  I hear the sad howling of coyotes prowling

It sounds so mournful to me

It brings back memories of cherished loved ones

Of ones I'm longing to see



   I'm riding away out on the lone prairie

   The rangers are searching for me

   I'm riding away from my home in Texas

   A fugitive ever to be



I had a good mother I had a good father

They handed a warning to me

The men that I ran with committed a murder

And laid the blame on me



Little Maggie my sweetheart I know she's lonely

And longs for me to return

My happiness ended the night we parted

And now for her I yearn



How lonely how dreary with nothing to cheer me

My thoughts go stealing back home

My life of sadness will never know gladness

I'm branded forever to roam