Buffalo Skinners-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Best Of The War Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie [00:04.76]Come all you old time cowboys [00:08.06]And listen to my song [00:10.13] [00:12.25]Please do not grow weary [00:15.93]I'll not detain you long [00:19.55] [00:20.98]Concerning some wild cowboys [00:24.04]Who did agree to go [00:26.22] [00:27.97]Spend the summer pleasant [00:31.59]On the trail of the Buffalo [00:34.53] [00:36.02]I found myself in Griffin [00:39.39]In the spring of '83 [00:41.51] [00:43.38]When a well known famous drover [00:47.56]Came walking up to me [00:50.62] [00:52.24]Said "How do you do young fellow [00:55.68]Well how would you like to go [00:58.17] [00:59.23]And spend the summer pleasant [01:02.54]On the trail of the Buffalo " [01:05.23] [01:07.60]Well I being out of work right then [01:09.53]To the drover I did say [01:11.28] [01:11.84]"Going out on the Buffalo Road [01:13.27]Depends on the pay [01:15.27] [01:16.27]If you will pay good wages [01:18.64]And transportation to and fro [01:20.82] [01:21.76]I think I might go with you [01:24.69]On the hunt of the Buffalo " [01:27.25] [01:29.31]"Of course I'll pay good wages [01:32.12]And transportation too [01:34.43]If you will agree to work for me [01:36.30]Until the season's through " [01:38.36] [01:39.11]But if you do get homesick [01:42.56]And try to run away [01:44.74] [01:45.49]You will starve to death [01:46.86]Out on the trail and also lose your pay " [01:51.79] [01:53.66]Well with all his flattering talking [01:56.37]He signed up quite a train [01:58.73] [01:59.42]Some 10 or 12 in number [02:02.66]Some able bodied men [02:06.10] [02:07.53]The trip it was a pleasant one [02:10.03]As we hit the westward road [02:12.46] [02:13.71]Until we crossed old Boggy Creek [02:17.08]In old New Mexico [02:19.95] [02:20.95]There our pleasures ended [02:23.63]And our troubles began [02:25.56] [02:26.38]A lightening storm hit us [02:28.50]And made the cattle run [02:30.74] [02:31.56]Got all full of stickers [02:33.93]From the cactus that did not grow [02:36.48] [02:37.24]And the outlaws watching [02:38.30]To pick us off in the hills of Mexico [02:42.60] [02:44.41]Well our working season ended [02:47.22]And the drover would not pay [02:49.59] [02:50.59]If you had not drunk too much [02:53.39]You are all in debt to me [02:56.95] [02:58.14]But the cowboys never had heard [03:01.07]Such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:04.07] [03:04.75]So we left that drover's bones to bleach [03:08.81]On the Plains of the Buffalo