Buffalo Skinners Traditional - Woody Guthrie* Come all you old time cowboys and listen to my song Please do not grow weary, I’ll not detain you long Concerning some old cowboys who did agree to go To spend a summer pleasant on the trail of the buffalo Well, I found myself in Griffin in the spring of '83 When a well-known famous drover come a-walkin’ up to me Said: How d’ye do, young fellow! How’d you like to go To spend a summer pleasant on the trail of the buffalo Well, me out bein’ of work right then to that drover I did say This Goin’ up on the buffalo road depends upon your pay If you will pay good wages, transportation to an’ fro’ Think I might go with you on the trail of the buffalo ‘Cause I pay, he said, good wages and transportation too You’ll agree to work for me until the season through But if you do get homesick an’ you try to run away You’ll starve to death out on the trail and also lose your pay With all his flatt’rin’ talkin’ he signed up quite a train Some ten or twelve in number, some able-bodied men Our trip it was a pleasant one as we hit the westward road ‘til we crossed ol’ Boggy Creek in ol’ New Mexico There our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun A lightnin’ storm had hit us and made the cattle run Got all full of stickers from the cactus that did grow And outlaws watchin’ to pick us off in the hills of Mexico Now the workin’ season ended, and the drover would not pay You went an’ drunk to much, you’re all in debt to me, he said But the cowboys never had heard of such a thing as a bankrupt law So we left that drover’s bone to bleach on the plains of the buffalo * This is the version I recorded   alles-uke.de