Sarah Hogan
From That's What Love Can Do
(John Lowell, Old Carl's Music, BMI)
In the pine covered hills of South Dakota
When the evening stars are shining bright and clear
And the drovers tell their stories 'round the campfire
The tale of Sarah Hogan you will hear
Sarah was the sweetest flower of the prairie
With flowing hair and blue eyes flecked with gray
Her smile could turn the sunshine into shadow
And the cowboys that came courting here would say
Chorus:
Won't you meet me in the moonlight, Sarah Hogan
We could ride out in the hills my Sarah dear
Hear that prairie wolf a cryin', he sings a mournful sound
But I will not be lonesome with you here
Billy Caldwell was a bold and reckless cowboy
He vied for Sarah's heart and not in vain
But her father could not stand the charming rounder
And forbade them both to ever meet again
Billy fell in with some bad men from Wyoming
When they robbed the Tilford bank, two men were killed
Sarah did not know her lover was an outlaw
On the night she rode to meet him in the hills
(Chorus)
In the quiet shadows waiting for the outlaws
Were some vigilantes shrouded by the night
Sarah's father raised a rifle to his shoulder
As the mounted robber lined up in his sights
And when the gunshot tore the silence just like thunder
The bullet knocked the rider to the ground
But when the men ran out to fetch the fallen outlaw
It was Sarah's lifeless body that they found
(Chorus)
Meet me in the moonlight, Sarah Hogan
I will not be lonesome with you here
