Buffalo Skinners-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Worried Man Blues - The Best O] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie [00:04.01]Come all you old time cowboys [00:07.70]And listen to my song [00:09.82] [00:11.94]Please do not grow weary [00:14.94] [00:15.81]I'll not detain you long [00:19.68] [00:21.17]Concerning some wild cowboys [00:24.54]Who did agree to go [00:26.98] [00:28.35]Spend the summer pleasant [00:32.35]On the trail of the Buffalo [00:35.34] [00:36.78]I found myself in Griffin [00:40.46]In the spring of '83 [00:42.45] [00:44.39]When a well known famous drover [00:48.94]Came walking up to me [00:51.88] [00:53.56]Said "How do you do young fellow [00:57.18]Well how would you like to go [01:00.06] [01:00.74]And spend the summer pleasant [01:04.55]On the trail of the Buffalo " [01:07.67] [01:09.48]Well I being out of work right then [01:11.53]To the drover I did say [01:13.97]"Going out on the Buffalo Road [01:15.47]Depends on the pay [01:17.77] [01:18.52]If you will pay good wages [01:21.14]And transportation to and fro [01:23.39] [01:24.14]I think I might go with you [01:27.26]On the hunt of the Buffalo " [01:29.63] [01:32.06]"Of course I'll pay good wages [01:34.99]And transportation too [01:37.37]If you will agree to work for me [01:39.30]Until the season's through " [01:41.30] [01:42.23]But if you do get homesick [01:45.92]And try to run away [01:47.73] [01:48.79]You will starve to death [01:50.04]Out on the trail and also lose your pay " [01:55.35] [01:57.41]Well with all his flattering talking [01:58.91] [01:59.98]He signed up quite a train [02:02.42] [02:03.29]Some 10 or 12 in number [02:06.60]Some able bodied men [02:09.72] [02:11.72]The trip it was a pleasant one [02:14.34]As we hit the westward road [02:16.83] [02:18.27]Until we crossed old Boggy Creek [02:21.70]In old New Mexico [02:24.44] [02:25.69]There our pleasures ended [02:28.44]And our troubles began [02:30.45] [02:31.39]A lightening storm hit us [02:33.51]And made the cattle run [02:35.94] [02:36.76]Got all full of stickers [02:39.01]From the cactus that did not grow [02:41.81] [02:42.49]And the outlaws watching [02:43.87]To pick us off in the hills of Mexico [02:48.42] [02:49.98]Well our working season ended [02:52.92]And the drover would not pay [02:55.48] [02:56.41]If you had not drunk too much [02:59.28]You are all in debt to me [03:02.59] [03:04.21]But the cowboys never had heard [03:07.27]Such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:10.14] [03:11.14]So we left that drover's bones to bleach [03:13.45] [03:15.43]On the Plains of the Buffalo