Buffalo Skinners-Pete Seeger/Public Domain

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Songs For The Working Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners - Pete Seeger/Public Domain [00:02.27]Written by：Public Domain [00:04.55]'Twas in the town o' Jacksboro in the spring o' seventy-three [00:09.36] [00:11.23]A man by the name o' Crego come steppin' up to me [00:15.50] [00:18.13]Said how d'you do young fellers and how'd you like to go [00:23.06] [00:24.64]And spend one summer pleasantly on the range o' the buffalo [00:29.29] [00:32.39]It's me being out of employment to ol' Crego I did say [00:36.48] [00:37.80]That's goin' out on the buffalo range depends upon the pay [00:41.99] [00:44.70]But if you'll pay good wages and transportation too [00:48.74] [00:50.22]I think sir I will go with you to the range o' the buffalo [00:55.66] [01:00.66]Well it's now we've crossed Pease River boys our troubles they have begun [01:04.81] [01:09.38]First old stinker that I cut Christ how I cut my thumb [01:12.68] [01:16.65]While skinnin' the dog-gone ol' buffalo our lives they had no show [01:20.91] [01:22.85]For the Indians watched to pick us off while skinnin' the buffalo [01:27.46] [01:33.71]The season being near over ol' Crego he did say [01:38.85] [01:41.77]The crowd had been extravagant was in debt to him that day [01:45.88] [01:49.69]We coaxed him an' we argued but still it was no go [01:54.82] [01:58.31]We left his damned ol' bones to bleached on the range o' the buffalo [02:02.82] [02:06.58]It's now we've crossed Pease River and homeward we are bound [02:11.97] [02:15.29]No more in that old fire country will ever we be found [02:19.94] [02:23.71]Go back to our wives and sweethearts tell others not to go [02:29.59] [02:32.44]For god's forsaken the buffalo range and the damn ol' buffalo