| Back when Cattle Creek used to sing | |
| it's waters were sweet and its banks were green | |
| and sunny days, went on forever | |
| Me and old Bugler, we'd run wild | |
| bluetick hound and the redneck child | |
| we thought we were, birds of a feather | |
| Ah the fish would bite, my how they'd bite | |
| we'd catch them possoms in the pail moonlight | |
| for ma, just to please her | |
| Bugler's voice like Gabriel's horn | |
| up in the cypress, all down through the corn | |
| golden sounds, yes to treasure | |
| Bugler, Bugler, bless your hide | |
| Jesus gonna take you for a chariot ride | |
| Say Goodbye, Say Goodbye | |
| One day Ma she brought the news | |
| She said, honey young Bugler's done paid his dues | |
| he's been hit down, yes on that highway | |
| Dry your eyes and stand up straight | |
| Bugler's got a place at the pearly gates | |
| Say goodbye sugar, Oh say goodbye | |
| Bugler, Bugler, bless your hide | |
| Jesus gonna take you for a chariot ride | |
| Say Goodbye, Say Goodbye |