The Strawberry Roan-Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie

[ti:The Strawberry Roan] [ar:Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie] [al:The Great American Bum] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Strawberry Roan - Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie [00:03.75]I was standin' 'round town just a spendin' my time [00:06.96] [00:07.71]Out of a job not earnin' a dime [00:10.95]A feller steps up and he said I suppose [00:14.16]You're a bronc bustin' man [00:15.89]By the looks of your clothes [00:18.10] [00:18.92]You guessed me right I'm a good one I claim [00:22.43]Do you happen to have any bad ones to tame [00:25.54] [00:26.23]He says I've got one and a bad one to buck [00:29.02] [00:29.83]At throwin' bronc riders he's had lots of luck [00:32.52] [00:33.34]He says this old pony ain't never been rode [00:36.44]And the boy that gets on him is bound to get throwed [00:39.51] [00:40.20]I gets all excited and I ask what he pays [00:43.08] [00:43.66]To ride this old goat for a couple of days [00:46.65] [00:47.22]He offers a ten spot I says I'm your man [00:49.84] [00:50.38]For the bronc never lived that I couldn't fan [00:53.24] [00:54.19]No the bronc never lived nor he never drew breath [00:57.13] [00:57.67]That I couldn't ride till be starved plumb to death [01:00.51] [01:02.62]He says get your saddle I'll give you a chance [01:05.61] [01:06.30]We got in the buckboard and rode to the ranch [01:09.04] [01:09.85]We stayed until morning and right after chuck [01:12.85]We goes out to see how that outlaw could buck [01:15.87] [01:17.62]Well down in the horse corral standing alone [01:20.24] [01:20.80]Was that old cavayo old strawberry roan [01:24.30]His legs were spavined and he had pigeon toes [01:27.40] [01:28.05]Little pig eyes and a big roman nose [01:30.86] [01:31.58]Little pin ears that were crimped at the tip [01:34.68]With a big 44 branded 'cross his left hip [01:37.66] [01:38.42]He's ewe necked and old with a long lower jaw [01:41.70]You can see with one eye he's a reg'lar outlaw [01:44.71] [01:46.68]Well I puts on my spurs and I coils up my twine [01:49.89] [01:50.59]I piled my loop on him I'm sure feeling fine [01:53.09] [01:54.10]I gets in his middle and opens the blind [01:56.96]I'm right in his middle to see him unwind [02:00.31] [02:02.14]He lowered his old neck and I think he unwound [02:05.19] [02:05.78]He seemed to quit living down there on the ground [02:09.24]He went up towards the east and came down towards the west [02:12.19] [02:12.76]To stay in his middle I'm doin' my best [02:15.82] [02:16.47]I'll tell you no foolin' this pony can step [02:19.52]But I'm still in his middle and buildin' a rep [02:22.91]He goes up on all fours and comes down on his side [02:26.44]I don't know what keeps him from losin' his hide [02:29.86]He's about the worst bucker I've seen on the range [02:32.71] [02:33.21]He can turn on a nickel and give you some change [02:36.14] [02:36.94]I loses my stirrup and also my hat [02:39.81] [02:40.38]I starts pulling leather I'm blind as a bat [02:43.33]With a big forward jump he goes up on high [02:46.53]Leaves me sittin' on nothin' way up in the sky [02:50.06] [02:50.71]I turns over twice and I comes back to earth [02:53.45] [02:53.95]I lights in a cussin' the day of his birth [02:56.91] [02:58.15]I know there is ponies I'm unable to ride [03:00.96] [03:01.65]Some are still living they haven't all died [03:04.98]I'll bet all my money the man ain't alive [03:07.92] [03:08.70]That can stay with old strawberry when he makes his high dive