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Traditional, arranged by |
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Arlo Guthrie |
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Come all you old time cowboys |
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And listen to my song |
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Please do not grow weary |
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I'll not detain you long |
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Concerning some wild cowboys |
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Who did agree to go |
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And spend the summer pleasant |
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On the range of the buffalo. |
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Well I found myself in |
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Griffin In eighteen eighty-three |
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When a man by the name of |
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Creagho Come a'walkin' up to me |
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Sayin "How do you do young fella And how'd you like to go And spend the summer pleasant On the range of the buffalo". |
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Well me being out of work right then |
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To that drover |
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I did say "My goin' out on the buffalo range Depends upon the pay But if you pay good wages, Transportation to and fro I think I might go with you On the range of the Buffalo". |
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Well yes I pay good wages |
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And transportation too |
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If you'll agree to work for me |
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Until the season's through |
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But if you do get homesick |
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And you try and run away |
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You'll starve to death out on the trail |
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And you'll also lose your pay |
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Well with all the flatterin' talkin' |
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He signed up quite a train |
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Some ten or twelve in number |
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Of able bodied men |
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And our trip it was a pleasant one |
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Through all |
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New Mexico |
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Until we crossed |
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Pease River |
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On the range of the buffalo |
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It was there our pleasures ended |
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And our troubles all begun |
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A lightnin' storm come up on us |
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And made the cattle run |
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We got full of the stickers |
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On the cactus that did grow |
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And the outlaws waited to pick us off |
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In the hills of |
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Mexico Well the working season ended |
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But the drover would not pay |
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He said "You spent your money boys You're all in debt to me". |
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But the cowboys never put much stock |
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In a thing like a bankrupt law |
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So we left the bastard's bones to bleach |
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On the range of the buffalo. |
