There's an old prairie schooner Wendin' its way Over the Santa Fe trail With its captain and crew Pushin' on, goin' through Over the Santa Fe trail Pioneering fourty-niners, sailed away In mighty liners Over the sagebrush seed Sailed away to far off land Through the rollin', burnin' sand Out on the lone prairie Anchors away At each break of day Ole Captain Kidd Never did it that way There's an old prairie schooner Wendin' its way Over the Santa Fe trail Over the Santa Fe trail