Buffalo Skinners-Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Hard Travellin] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers [00:04.55]Come all you old time cowboys [00:05.97] [00:08.07]And listen to my song [00:09.30] [00:12.24]Please do not grow weary [00:13.43] [00:16.00]I'll not detain you long [00:17.18] [00:21.18]Concerning some wild cowboys [00:22.42] [00:24.20]Who did agree to go [00:25.30] [00:28.03]Spend the summer pleasant [00:29.10] [00:31.67]On the trail of the Buffalo [00:32.80] [00:36.08]I found myself in Griffin [00:37.27] [00:39.45]In the spring of '83 [00:40.59] [00:43.46]When a well known famous drover [00:44.92] [00:47.62]Came walking up to me [00:48.59] [00:52.30]Said "How do you do young fellow [00:53.93] [00:55.64]Well how would you like to go [00:57.22] [00:59.34]Spend the summer pleasant [01:00.41] [01:02.73]On the trail of the Buffalo " [01:04.10] [01:07.74]Well I being out of work right then [01:09.49]To the drover I did say [01:10.79] [01:11.90]"Going out on the Buffalo Road [01:13.51]Depends on the pay [01:14.29] [01:16.46]If you will pay good wages [01:17.56] [01:18.71]And transportation to and fro [01:19.88] [01:21.83]I think I might go with you [01:23.11] [01:24.88]On the hunt of the Buffalo " [01:26.16] [01:29.44]"Of course I'll pay good wages [01:30.75] [01:32.24]And transportation too [01:32.97] [01:34.54]If you will agree to work for me [01:35.90]Until the season's through " [01:37.10] [01:39.24]But if you do get homesick [01:40.30] [01:42.76]And try to run away [01:43.88] [01:45.58]You will starve to death [01:46.51]Out on the trail and also lose your pay " [01:50.70] [01:53.87]Well with all his flattering talking [01:55.13] [01:56.54]He signed up quite a train [01:58.02] [01:59.67]Some 10 or 12 in number [02:01.07] [02:02.85]Some able bodied men [02:05.17] [02:07.83]I trip it was a pleasant one [02:09.19] [02:10.33]As we hit the westward road [02:11.47] [02:14.14]Until we crossed old Boggy Creek [02:15.32] [02:17.64]In old New Mexico [02:18.68] [02:21.29]There our pleasures ended [02:22.54] [02:23.94]And our troubles began [02:25.10] [02:26.76]A lightening storm hit us [02:28.00] [02:28.95]And made the cattle run [02:30.07] [02:32.00]Got all full of stickers [02:33.04] [02:34.14]From the cactus that did not grow [02:35.92] [02:37.53]And the outlaws watching [02:38.77]To pick us off in the hills of Mexico [02:41.80] [02:44.80]Well our working season ended [02:45.90] [02:47.63]And the drover would not pay [02:48.83] [02:51.00]If you had not drunk too much [02:52.32] [02:53.90]You are all in debt to me [02:55.94] [02:58.57]But the cowboys never had heard [03:00.02] [03:01.55]Such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:03.36] [03:05.27]So we left that drover's bones to bleach [03:07.59] [03:09.35]On the Plains of the Buffalo