Zebra Dun-Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie

[ti:Zebra Dun] [ar:Cisco Houston] [al:The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Zebra Dun - Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie [00:03.02]We were camped on the bend [00:04.88]At the head of the Cimmarron [00:06.82] [00:07.66]When along come a stranger [00:09.15] [00:10.21]And he stopped to argue some [00:11.98] [00:13.20]Well he looked so very foolish [00:14.92]We began to look around [00:16.98]We thought he was a greenhorn [00:18.73]Just escaped from town [00:20.68] [00:22.19]He said he'd lost his job [00:23.82]Upon the Sante Fe [00:25.33] [00:26.44]And was going cross the prairie [00:29.10]To strike the 7D [00:30.79] [00:31.30]He didn't say how come it [00:33.02]Some trouble with the boss [00:34.33] [00:35.00]And asked if he could borrow [00:36.77]A fat saddle horse [00:38.20] [00:39.47]This tickled all the boys to death [00:41.49]They laughed right up their sleeves [00:43.27]Oh we will lend you a fine horse [00:45.79]As fresh as fat as you please [00:47.42] [00:48.62]Then Shorty grabbed the lariat [00:50.42]And he roped the Zebra Dun [00:52.19]And he gave him to the stranger [00:54.16]And waited for the fun [00:55.52] [00:59.74]Now old Dunny was an outlaw [01:02.20]He had grown so very wild [01:03.83] [01:05.07]Well he could paw the moon down [01:06.65] [01:07.36]Boys he could jump a mile [01:09.12] [01:10.28]Old Dunny stood right still [01:12.25]As if he didn't know [01:14.06]Until he was saddle [01:15.71]And a ready for the go [01:17.51] [01:19.16]When the stranger hit the saddle [01:20.96]Well old Dunny quit the earth [01:23.04]He traveled right straight upwards [01:26.60]For all that he was worth [01:28.45]A bucking and a squealing [01:30.36]And a having wall eyed fits [01:31.80]His hind feet perpendicular [01:33.96]His front feet in the bits [01:35.36] [01:38.28]We could see the tops of the mountains [01:40.33]Under Dunny's every jump [01:41.61] [01:42.15]The stranger he was growed there [01:44.88]Like the camel's hump [01:46.08] [01:46.63]The stranger sat upon him [01:48.15]And he curled his black mustache [01:49.98]Just like a summer boarder [01:51.99]Who was waiting for his hash [01:53.53] [01:55.58]Well he thumped him in the shoulders [01:57.70]And he spurred him when he whirled [02:00.35]He hollered to the punchers [02:03.58]"I'm the wolf of the world " [02:05.86]And when he had dismounted [02:07.61]Once more upon the ground [02:09.35]We knew he was a thoroughbred [02:12.32]And not a gent from town [02:13.52] [02:16.24]Now the boss who was a standing around [02:18.50]A watching of the show [02:20.08]He walked up to the stranger [02:22.57]And he said he needn't go [02:24.49]If you can handle a lariat [02:26.20]Like you rode the Zebra Dun [02:27.99]You're the man that I've been looking [02:29.74]For since the year of one [02:31.37] [02:34.27]Well there's one thing and a sure thing [02:37.73]I've learned since I've been born [02:39.86]That every educated feller [02:41.40] [02:42.06]Ain't a plumb greenhorn