He joined a band of cowboys and tried to forget her name.
Out on the lonely prairie she waits for him the same.

Your sweetheart waits for you, Jack. Your sweetheart waits for you
Out on the lonely prairie where the skies are always blue.

One night when work was finished, just at the close of day
Someone said, "Sing a song, Jack, to drive the dull away."
When Jack began his singing, his mind it wandered back
And he sang about a maiden who's waiting for her Jack.

Jack left the camp next morning, breathing his sweetheart's name
I'll go and beg forgiveness, for I know I am to blame.
When Jack he reached the prairie, he found a new made mound.
His friends they sadly told him they'd laid his loved one down.

They said as she was dying, she breathed her sweetheart's name
And told them with her last breath to tell him when he came.