They learned to love each other
And named their wedding day,
But a quarrel came between them
And Jack he rode away.

He joined a band of cowboys
And tried to forget her name,
But out on the lonely prairie
She waits for him just the same.

One night when the work was finished
Just at the close of day,
Someone said,“Sing a song,Jack,
Just to pass the time away.”

When Jack began his singing
His mind it wandered back,
He sang a song of a maiden
Who waited for her Jack.

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

Jack left the camp next morning
Breathing his sweethearts name,
He said I'll ask for forgiveness
For I know I'm to blame.

But when he reached the prairie
He found a new made mound
His friends they sadly told him
“We've laid your sweetheart down.”

They said as she lay dying
She breathed her sweethearts name,
And asked them with her last breath
To tell him when he came,

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