Buffalo Skinners-Cisco Houston

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Cisco Houston] [al:Cisco Houston Sings Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners - Cisco Houston [00:03.19]Come all you old time cowboys and listen to my song [00:08.78] [00:09.92]Please do not grow weary I'll not detain you long [00:16.94] [00:18.01]Concerning some wild cowboys who did agree to go [00:23.85] [00:24.80]And the spend the summer pleasant on the range of the buffalo [00:30.39] [00:32.17]Well I found myself in griffin in 1883 [00:38.23] [00:39.21]When a well known famous drover come walkin' up to me [00:45.84] [00:47.05]He said how do you do young feller [00:50.94]And how'd you like to go [00:52.83] [00:53.78]And spend the summer pleasant [00:56.79]On the trail of the buffalo [00:59.51] [01:00.77]Well me bein' out of work right [01:02.21]Then to that drover I did say [01:06.17] [01:06.95]This goin' out on the buffalo road depends upon your pay [01:13.88] [01:15.14]If you'll pay good wages transportation to and fro [01:20.79] [01:21.68]Well I think I might go with you [01:24.79]On the range of the buffalo [01:27.56] [01:28.93]Yes I will pay good wages and transportation too [01:33.97] [01:34.67]If you'll agree to work for me [01:37.72]Until the season's through [01:40.83] [01:41.80]But if you do grow homesick [01:43.37] [01:45.42]And try to run away [01:47.37] [01:48.44]You'll starve to death out on the [01:50.14]Trail and you'll also lose your pay [01:54.43] [01:57.18]Well with all this flatterin' talkin' [02:00.33]Well he signed up quite a train [02:03.12] [02:04.45]Some ten or twelve in number all able bodied men [02:11.57] [02:12.28]Our trip it was a pleasant one [02:15.52]As we hit the westward road [02:17.51] [02:18.66]Until we struck old boggy creek in old new Mexico [02:25.27] [02:26.32]Well here our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun [02:32.20] [02:32.77]When a lightin' storm hit us [02:35.89] [02:36.52]And it made the cattle run [02:39.44] [02:40.37]We got all full of stickers [02:44.20]From the cactus that did grow [02:46.48] [02:47.50]And the outlaws waitin' to pick us off in old new Mexico [02:53.13] [02:55.27]Well our workin' season ended [02:59.21]But that drover would not pay [03:01.66] [03:03.31]He said you went and drunk too much [03:07.25]You're all in debt to me [03:10.63] [03:11.98]But the cowboys never had heard of [03:15.89]Such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:18.42] [03:19.55]So we left that drover's bones to bleach [03:23.30]On the range of the buffalo