Alone in a great big city I'm as lonesome as I can be Far from the open spaces And the home that is dear to me It's years since I left this prairie Where the coyotes roam at night And howl while the stars they are blinking And the moon shines clear and bright I'm getting so old and feeble My days they are nearly done How I long for the prairie Where the cattle and the mustangs run Take me out where the cowboys Singing the campfires gleam Oh, how I long for Texas That land of my boyhood dream