Desert Blues-Jimmie Rodgers

[ti:Desert Blues] [ar:Jimmie Rodgers] [al:Recordings 1927 - 1933] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Desert Blues - Jimmie Rodgers [00:07.40]Way out on the windswept desert [00:09.76] [00:10.52]Where nature favors no man [00:12.86] [00:14.19]The buffalo found his brother [00:16.46] [00:17.38]At rest on the sun-baked sand [00:19.91] [00:21.10]He said my brother what ails you [00:24.33]Has sickness got you this way [00:26.67] [00:27.64]But his brother never said [00:29.42]For his brother was dead [00:31.21]Been dead since way last May [00:33.57] [01:06.47]Here's to Chief Big Buffalo Nickel [01:09.72] [01:10.25]A mighty man in his day [01:12.51] [01:13.77]Never once used a sickle to clear the bushes away [01:19.41] [01:21.15]He would go around from tent to tent [01:24.01] [01:24.80]Eat everything in sight [01:27.44] [01:28.44]He loved a squaw every one he saw [01:31.47]He loved a new one every night [01:34.66] [02:08.18]Last night on the windswept desert [02:10.99] [02:11.72]I heard a big Indian moan [02:13.92] [02:15.33]I left my tent I knew what it meant [02:18.37]And I swore I'd never more roam [02:21.46] [02:22.66]It was dawn when I reached safety [02:25.42] [02:26.06]My legs were certainly sore [02:28.71] [02:29.25]I must of lost fifty pounds on that hot desert ground [02:32.85]And I'd lose that many more