Buffalo Skinners-Cisco Houston

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Cisco Houston] [al:Best Of The Vanguard Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners - Cisco Houston [00:03.31]Come all you old time cowboys [00:05.88]And listen to my song [00:07.59] [00:09.67]Please do not grow weary [00:13.36]I'll not detain you long [00:16.84] [00:17.99]Concerning some wild cowboys [00:21.70]Who did agree to go [00:23.39] [00:24.89]And spend the Summer pleasant [00:27.65]On the range of the buffalo [00:29.41] [00:32.17]Well I found myself in Griffin in 1883 [00:37.95] [00:39.01]When a well known famous [00:40.39]Drover come walkin' up to me [00:45.45] [00:46.70]He said how do you do [00:47.78]Young feller [00:50.40]And how'd you like to go [00:52.20] [00:53.64]And spend the Summer pleasant [00:56.55]On the trail of the buffalo [00:58.49] [01:00.32]Well me bein' out of work right then [01:03.04]To that drover I did say [01:04.74] [01:06.52]This goin' out on the buffalo road [01:10.42]Depends upon your pay [01:13.28] [01:14.58]If you'll pay good wages [01:18.02]Transportation to and fro [01:19.82] [01:21.31]Well I think I might go with you [01:24.23]On the range of the buffalo [01:25.92] [01:28.23]Yes I will pay good wages [01:30.92]And transportation too [01:32.43] [01:34.07]If you'll agree to work for me [01:37.14]Until the season's through [01:40.05] [01:41.11]But if you do grow homesick [01:44.49]And try to run away [01:46.26] [01:47.78]You'll starve to death out on the trail [01:50.77]And you'll also lose your pay [01:53.71] [01:56.57]Well with all this flatterin' talkin' [01:59.47]Well he signed up quite a train [02:01.92] [02:03.79]Some ten or twelve in number [02:07.50]All able bodied men [02:10.68] [02:11.39]Our trip it was a pleasant one [02:14.55]As we hit the westward road [02:16.41] [02:17.64]Until we struck old Boggy Creek [02:21.21]In old New Mexico [02:24.44] [02:25.70]Well here our pleasures ended [02:28.48]And our troubles all begun [02:30.30] [02:31.41]When a lightin' storm hit us [02:35.28]And it made the cattle run [02:38.12] [02:39.06]We got all full of stickers [02:42.83]From the cactus that did grow [02:44.93] [02:46.19]And the outlaws waitin' [02:47.20]To pick us off in old New Mexico [02:50.91] [02:54.16]Well our workin' season ended [02:57.74]But that drover would not pay [03:00.12] [03:02.18]He said you went and drunk too much [03:05.76]You're all in debt to me [03:09.14] [03:10.56]But the cowboys never had heard [03:14.25]Of such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:16.65] [03:17.97]So we left that drover's bones [03:19.93]To bleach on the range of the buffalo