Lyr. Add: THE COWBOY'S LOVE SONG
(AKA Red River Valley) Jules Verne Allen

From this valley they say you are going,
We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile;
For at last you are seekin' the sunshine,
To brighten your pathway for a while.

Chorus:
Then come sit here awhile 'ere you leave us,
Do not hasten to bid us adieu.
Just remember the Red River Valley,
And the cowboy who loves you so true.

I have promised you darling that never,
Will the words from my lips cause you pain;
And my life it will be yours forever,
If you only will love me again.

Must the past with its joys be blighted,
By the future of sorrow and pain?
Must the vows that were spoken be slighted?
Don't you think you could love me again?

Chorus

There never could be such a longing,
In the heart of a poor cowboy's breast,
As dwells in the heart you are breaking,
As I wait in my home in the West.

Do you think of the valley you're leaving?
Oh, how lonely and dreary it will be!
Do you think of the kind hearts you're hurting?
And the pain you are causing to me?

Chorus:
Then come sit here awhile 'ere you leave us,
Do not hasten to bid us adieu,
Just remember the Red River Valley,
And the cowboy who loves you so true.

pp. 102-103, with music.
Allen was born in Texas in 1883. As a horse wrangler he worked the plains in the 90s and worked cattle from Mexico to Montana.
Jules Verne Allen, 1933, "Cowboy Lore," The Naylor Company, San Antonio, Texas.