Buffalo Skinners (Trail Of The Buffalo)-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Buffalo Skinners (Trail Of The Buffalo)] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Bob Dylan's Woody Guthrie Selection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners (Trail Of The Buffalo) - Woody Guthrie [00:04.54]Come all you old time cowboys [00:07.97]And listen to my song [00:12.19]Please do not grow weary [00:15.87]I'll not detain you long [00:20.98]Concerning some wild cowboys [00:24.05]Who did agree to go [00:27.84]Spend the summer pleasant [00:31.56]On the trail of the buffalo [00:33.95] [00:35.96]I found myself in griffin [00:39.36]In the spring of '83 [00:43.32]When a well known famous drover [00:47.51]Came walking up to me [00:52.16]Said "How do you do young fellow [00:55.51]Well how would you like to go [00:59.12]Spend the summer pleasant [01:02.55]On the trail of the buffalo " [01:07.52]Well i being out of work right then [01:09.29]To the drover i did say [01:11.69]"Going out on the buffalo road [01:13.28]Depends on the pay [01:14.34] [01:16.27]If you will pay good wages [01:18.48]And transportation to and fro [01:20.14] [01:21.68]I think i might go with you [01:24.67]On the hunt of the buffalo" [01:29.29]"Of course i'll pay good wages [01:32.07]And transportation too [01:34.31]If you will agree to work for me [01:35.76]Until the season's through" [01:36.46] [01:39.04]But if you do get homesick [01:42.56]And try to run away [01:45.34]You will starve to death [01:46.40]Out on the trail and also lose your pay" [01:53.66]Well with all his flattering talking [01:56.30]He signed up quite a train [01:59.36]Some 10 or 12 in number [02:02.58]Some able bodied men [02:07.50]I trip it was a pleasant one [02:10.00]As we hit the westward road [02:12.47] [02:13.75]Until we crossed old boggy creek [02:17.15]In old new mexico [02:20.87]There our pleasures ended [02:23.48]And our troubles began [02:26.38]A lightening storm hit us [02:28.54]And made the cattle run [02:31.53]Got all full of stickers [02:33.67]From the cactus that did not grow [02:37.09]And the outlaws watching [02:38.14]To pick us off in the hills of mexico [02:41.15] [02:44.34]Well our working season ended [02:47.28]And the drover would not pay [02:50.50]If you had not drunk too much [02:53.34]You are all in debt to me [02:58.00]But the cowboys never had heard [03:01.04]Such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:04.67]So we left that drover's bones to bleach [03:09.01]On the plains of the buffalo