Buffalo Skinners-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Buffalo Skinners] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:22 Folk Favorites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie [00:04.32]Come all you old time cowboys [00:06.08] [00:06.96]And listen to my song [00:08.77] [00:11.94]Please do not grow weary [00:12.98] [00:15.07]I'll not detain you long [00:16.13] [00:20.21]Concerning some wild cowboys [00:21.71] [00:23.67]Who did agree to go [00:24.85] [00:27.42]Spend the summer pleasant [00:28.42] [00:31.01]On the trail of the Buffalo [00:32.24] [00:35.57]I found myself in Griffin [00:37.17] [00:39.06]In the spring of '83 [00:40.18] [00:43.01]When a well known famous drover [00:44.84] [00:47.42]Came walking up to me [00:48.53] [00:52.02]Said [00:52.25]"How do you do young fellow [00:53.81] [00:55.51]Well how would you like to go [00:57.00] [00:59.32]And spend the summer pleasant [01:00.58] [01:02.81]On the trail of the Buffalo " [01:04.47] [01:07.91]Well I being out of work right then [01:10.00]To the drover I did say [01:11.11] [01:12.16]"Going out on the Buffalo Road [01:13.72]Depends on the pay [01:14.44]If you will pay good wages [01:18.19] [01:19.43]And transportation to and fro [01:20.44] [01:22.34]I think I might go with you [01:23.62] [01:25.45]On the hunt of the Buffalo " [01:26.88] [01:30.15]"Of course I'll pay good wages [01:31.46]And transportation too [01:35.41]If you will agree to work for me [01:37.03]Until the season's through " [01:37.66]But if you do get homesick [01:43.89] [01:45.34]And try to run away [01:46.11] [01:46.89]You will starve to death [01:49.31] [01:50.91]Out on the trail and also [01:53.44]Lose your pay " [01:54.27]Well with all his flattering talking [01:56.04] [01:56.78]He signed up quite a train [01:58.65] [01:59.63]Some 10 or 12 in number [02:01.27] [02:03.07]Some able bodied men [02:05.57] [02:08.27]The trip it was a pleasant one [02:10.62]As we hit the westward road [02:12.23] [02:14.53]Until we crossed old Boggy Creek [02:16.43] [02:18.17]In old New Mexico [02:19.35] [02:21.80]There our pleasures ended [02:23.02] [02:24.63]And our troubles began [02:25.54] [02:27.41]A lightening storm hit us [02:28.70] [02:29.75]And made the cattle run [02:31.08] [02:32.87]Got all full of stickers [02:34.06] [02:35.24]From the cactus that did not grow [02:36.84] [02:38.56]And the outlaws watching [02:40.19]To pick us off in the [02:42.49]Hills of Mexico [02:43.51] [02:45.97]Well our working season ended [02:47.55] [02:48.94]And the drover would not pay [02:50.28] [02:52.36]If you had not drunk too much [02:53.82] [02:55.28]You are all in debt to me [02:56.91] [03:00.08]But the cowboys never had heard [03:01.54] [03:03.24]Such a thing as a bankrupt law [03:04.77] [03:07.00]So we left that drover's [03:08.77]Bones to bleach [03:09.40] [03:11.27]On the Plains of the Buffalo