Wonder why I feel so restless

Moon is shinin' still and bright

Cattle all are restin' easy

But I just can't sleep tonight

Ain't no cactus in my blankets

Don't know why they feel so hard

'Less it's Warblin' Jim a singin'

Annie Laurie out on guard

Annie Laurie I wish he'd quit it

Couldn't sleep now if I tried

Makes the night feel big and lonesome

And my throat feels sore inside

How my Annie used to sing it

And it sounded good and gay

Nights I drove her home from dances

When the east was turnin' gray

Yes her brow t'was like the snowdrift

And her eyes like quiet streams

And her face I still can see it

Much too frequent in my dreams

And her hand was soft and trembling

That night underneath the tree

When I couldn't help but tell her

She was all the world to me

But her folks says I was shif'less

Wild unsettled they's right

For I leaned to punchin' cattle

Lord I'm at it still tonight

And she married young Doc Wilkins

My Lord but that was hard

Wish that fool would quit his singin'

Annie Laurie out on guard

Oh I just can't stand it thinkin'

Of the things that happened then

Good old times they're all apast me

Never seem to come again

My turn

Sure I'll come a runnin'

Just warm me up some coffee pard

And I'll stop that Jim from singin'

Annie Laurie out on guard

Give me her promise true

And ne'r forget will I

And for bonnie Annie Laurie

I'd lay me down and die