Last night I opened up what is, thanks to this site and you kind folks, my large tome of lyrics to folksongs. I had been thinking about revisiting "Texas Rangers" to see what I could do with it. I had never really looked at the lyrics as they are shown on the database. I soon came to realize that the first verse is pretty much hacked to pieces. It appears to include, in its second line, a fragment from a completely different song (which I am fairly certain continues with "...rock you on his knee"). I am sure this first verse as shown has little in common with the lines I once heard recorded by Ian and Sylvia but I cannot remember them - it is that age thing rearing its ugly head again. Can someone please fill in the gap?

TEXAS RANGERS

Come all ye Texas Rangers wherever you may be,
He will kiss you and he'll coax you,
And
One night the age of fifteen years I joined a royal band,
We marched from San Antonio unto the Rio Grande.

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Note from Joe Offer (Feb 2008): this was a technical error in the Digital Tradition, and it has been corrected.