Buffalo Skinners-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Worried Man Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.15]Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie [00:04.13]Come all you old time cowboys [00:07.93]And listen to my song [00:10.18] [00:12.23]Please do not grow weary [00:16.14]I'll not detain you long [00:20.22] [00:21.55]Concerning some wild cowboys [00:24.56]Who did agree to go [00:27.56] [00:28.82]Spend the summer pleasant [00:31.86] [00:32.42]On the trail of the buffalo [00:35.10] [00:37.29]I found myself in griffin [00:39.76] [00:40.53]In the spring of 83 [00:42.59] [00:44.68]When a well known famous drover [00:47.92] [00:49.04]Came walking up to me [00:51.89] [00:53.91]Said how do you do young fellow [00:57.34]Well how would you like to go [00:59.45] [01:01.18]And spend the summer pleasant [01:04.86]On the trail of the buffalo [01:08.70] [01:09.77]Well I being out of work right then [01:11.44]To the drover I did say [01:13.12] [01:13.87]Going out on the buffalo road [01:15.95]Depends on the pay [01:17.24] [01:18.89]If you will pay good wages [01:21.54]And transportation to and fro [01:23.62] [01:24.46]I think I might go with you [01:27.69]On the hunt of the buffalo [01:30.28] [01:32.32]Of course I'll pay good wages [01:35.41]And transportation too [01:36.89] [01:37.47]If you will agree to work for me [01:39.07]Until the season's through [01:41.84] [01:42.50]But if you do get homesick [01:46.47]And try to run away [01:47.79] [01:48.70]You will starve to death [01:50.02]Out on the trail and also lose your pay [01:55.39] [01:57.62]Well with all his flattering talking [01:59.76] [02:00.47]He signed up quite a train [02:02.13] [02:03.56]Some 10 or 12 in number [02:07.17]Some able bodied men [02:10.02] [02:12.10]The trip it was a pleasant one [02:14.85]As we hit the westward road [02:16.49] [02:18.63]Until we crossed old boggy creek [02:21.09] [02:22.20]In old new mexico [02:24.44] [02:26.02]There our pleasures ended [02:29.00]And our troubles began [02:30.74] [02:31.74]A lightening storm hit us [02:34.05]And made the cattle run [02:35.81] [02:36.89]Got all full of stickers [02:38.77] [02:39.28]From the cactus that did not grow [02:41.69] [02:42.75]And the outlaws watching [02:44.06]To pick us off in the hills of mexico [02:48.11] [02:50.35]Well our working season ended [02:53.30]And the drover would not pay [02:55.02] [02:56.81]If you had not drunk too much [02:59.83]You are all in debt to me [03:02.91] [03:04.42]But the cowboys never had heard [03:07.82]Such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:10.83] [03:11.59]So we left that drover's bones to bleach [03:15.97]On the plains of the buffalo [03:19.41]