| G | G | D7 | D7 |
| G | G |

[Verse 1]
                                  C                 G
Alone in a great big city, I'm as lonesome as I can be
C                 G              A7                   D7
Far from the open spaces and the home that is dear to me

[Verse 2]
     G                                          C               G
This years since I left this prairie, where the coyotes roam at night
    C              G                          A7                    D7
And howl while the stars are blinking and the moon shines clear and bright

[Verse 3]
    G                             C               G
I'm getting so old and feeble, my days are nearly done
   C                  G                  A7         D7       G
Oh how I long for the prairie, where the cattle and mustangs run

[Interlude]
| G  | G  | G  | G  |
| G  | G  | D7 | D7 |
| G  | G  | G  | G  |
| G  | G  | G  | G  |
| D7 | D7 | G  | G  |
(yodel)

[Verse 4]
                                     C                      G
Take me out there where the cowboys, sing in the campfire's gleam
   C                G             A          D7      G
Oh let me rest down in Texas, the land of my boyhood dream

[Break]
| G  | C | C | D7 |
| D7 | G |

[Verse 3]
                                  C               G
I'm getting so old and feeble, my days are nearly done
   C                  G                  A7                  D7
Oh how I long for the prairie, where the cattle and mustangs run

[Verse 4]
        G                            C                      G
Take me out there where the cowboys, sing in the campfire's gleam
   C               G             A7         D7      G
Oh let me rest out in Texas, the land of my boyhood drea-eam

[Outro]
| G | G | G  | G |
| G | A | D7 | G |
(yodel)