Woody Guthrie Buffalo Skinners Lyrics

Come all you old time cowboys and listen to my song.
Please do not grow weary I'll not detain you long.
Concernin' some wild cowboys who did agree to go
And spend the summer pleasant on the trail of the buffalo

Found myself in Griffin in the spring of '83
When a well known famous drover come walkin' up to me
Said "how do you fellow well how would you like to go
and spend the summer pleasant on the trail of the buffalo"
Well I being out of work right then to the drover I did say
"Going out on the buffalo depends upon your pay.
If you pay good wages, transportation to and fro
I think I might go with you on the hunt of the buffalo."
Of course I'll pay good wages and transportation too
If you'll agree to work for me until the season's through
But if you do get homesick and you try to run away
You'll starve to death out on the trail and also lose you're pay

Well with all his flattering talking he signed up quite a train
Some 10 or 12 in number some able bodied men
Our trip it was a pleasant one as we hit the westward road
Until we crossed old boggy creek in old New Mexico
There our pleasures ended and our troubles all began
A lighting storm did hit us and made the cattle run
Got all full of stickers from the cactus that did grow
Outlaws watching to pick us off in the hills of Mexico

Well our working season ended and the drover would not pay
If you hadn't drunk too much you're all in debt to me
But the cowboys never had heard such thing as the bankrupt law
So we left that drover's bones to bleach on the plains of the buffalo.