The Cowboy and the Maid + 

Funny how it come about! + 

Me and Texas Tom was out + 

Takin’ of a moonlight walk, + 

Fillin’ in the time with talk. + 

Every star up in the sky + 

Seemed to wink the other eye + 

At each other, ’sif they + 

Smelt a mouse around our way! + 

Me and Tom had never grew + 

Spoony like some couples do; + 

Never billed and cooed and sighed; + 

He was bashful like and I’d + 

Notions of my own that it + 

Wasn’t policy to git + 

Too abundant till I’d got + 

Of my feller good and caught. + 

As we walked along that night + 

He got talkin’ of the bright + 

Prospects that he had, and I + 

Somehow felt, I dunno why, + 

That afore we cake-walked back + 

To the ranch he’d make a crack + 

Fer my hand, and I was plum + 

Achin’ fer the shock to come. + 

By and by he says, “I’ve got + 

Fifty head o’ cows, and not + 

One of ’em but, on the dead, + 

Is a crackin’ thoroughbred. + 

Got a daisy claim staked out, + 

And I’m thinkin’ it’s about + 

Time fer me to make a shy + 

At a home.” “O Tom!” says I. + 

“Bin a-lookin’ round,” says he, + 

“Quite a little while to see + 

’F I could git a purty face + 

Fer to ornament the place. + 

Plenty of ’em in the land; + 

But the one ’at wears my brand + 

Must be sproutin’ wings to fly!” + 

“You deserve her, Tom,” says I. + 

“Only one so fur,” says he, + 

“Fills the bill, and mebbe she + 

Might shy off and bust my hope + 

If I should pitch the poppin’ rope. + 

Mebbe she’d git hot an’ say + 

That it was a silly play + 

Askin’ her to make a tie.” + 

“She would be a fool,” says I. + 

’Tain’t nobody’s business what + 

Happened then, but I jist thought + 

I could see the moon-man smile + 

Cutely down upon us, while + 

Me and him was walkin’ back⁠— + 

Stoppin’ now and then to smack + 

Lips rejoicin’ that at last + 

The dread crisis had been past. + 