Buffalo Skinners-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie [00:04.28]Come all you old time cowboys [00:07.93]And listen to my song [00:09.67] [00:12.01]Please do not grow weary [00:13.82] [00:15.76]I'll not detain you long [00:17.53] [00:20.99]Concerning some wild cowboys [00:22.64] [00:24.14]Who did agree to go [00:25.75] [00:28.03]Spend the summer pleasant [00:29.20] [00:31.66]On the trail of the Buffalo [00:33.49] [00:36.16]I found myself in Griffin [00:37.95] [00:39.58]In the spring of '83 [00:41.20] [00:43.55]When a well known famous drover [00:45.55] [00:47.97]Came walking up to me [00:49.54] [00:52.68]Said "How do you do young fellow [00:54.44] [00:55.88]Well how would you like to go [00:57.42] [00:59.56]And spend the summer pleasant [01:00.97] [01:03.03]On the trail of the Buffalo " [01:04.48] [01:08.04]Well I being out of work right then [01:09.63]To the drover I did say [01:11.06] [01:12.23]"Going out on the Buffalo Road [01:14.02]Depends on the pay [01:15.10] [01:16.90]If you will pay good wages [01:18.13] [01:19.16]And transportation to and fro [01:20.73] [01:22.25]I think I might go with you [01:23.80] [01:25.38]On the hunt of the Buffalo " [01:27.11] [01:30.22]"Of course I'll pay good wages [01:32.23] [01:32.92]And transportation too [01:34.04] [01:35.14]If you will agree to work for me [01:36.77]Until the season's through " [01:38.45] [01:39.90]But if you do get homesick [01:42.37] [01:43.41]And try to run away [01:45.08] [01:46.34]You will starve [01:47.29]Out on the trail and also lose your pay " [01:51.55] [01:54.71]Well with all his flattering talking [01:56.37] [01:57.47]He signed up quite a train [01:59.10] [02:00.47]Some 10 or 12 in number [02:02.38] [02:03.76]Some able bodied men [02:06.15] [02:08.71]The trip it was a pleasant one [02:11.39]As we hit the westward road [02:12.94] [02:15.06]Until we crossed old Boggy Creek [02:16.74] [02:18.57]In old New Mexico [02:20.04] [02:22.45]There our pleasures ended [02:25.11]And our troubles began [02:26.38] [02:27.86]A lightening storm hit us [02:30.07]And made the cattle run [02:31.55] [02:33.11]Got all full of stickers [02:35.36]From the cactus that did not grow [02:37.20] [02:38.73]And the outlaws watching [02:40.30]To pick us off in the hills of Mexico [02:43.40] [02:46.01]Well our working season ended [02:47.69] [02:48.91]And the drover would not pay [02:50.59] [02:52.43]If you had not drunk too much [02:54.05] [02:55.16]You are all in debt to me [02:57.14] [02:59.91]But the cowboys never had heard [03:01.70] [03:03.03]Such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:04.83] [03:06.71]So we left that drover's bones to bleach [03:09.57] [03:10.81]On the Plains of the Buffalo