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Buffalo Skinners - Cisco Houston

Come all you old time cowboys and listen to my song

Please do not grow weary I'll not detain you long

Concerning some wild cowboys who did agree to go

And the spend the summer pleasant on the range of the buffalo

Well I found myself in griffin in 1883

When a well known famous drover come walkin' up to me

He said how do you do young feller

And how'd you like to go

And spend the summer pleasant

On the trail of the buffalo

Well me bein' out of work right

Then to that drover I did say

This goin' out on the buffalo road depends upon your pay

If you'll pay good wages transportation to and fro

Well I think I might go with you

On the range of the buffalo

Yes I will pay good wages and transportation too

If you'll agree to work for me

Until the season's through

But if you do grow homesick

And try to run away

You'll starve to death out on the

Trail and you'll also lose your pay

Well with all this flatterin' talkin'

Well he signed up quite a train

Some ten or twelve in number all able bodied men

Our trip it was a pleasant one

As we hit the westward road

Until we struck old boggy creek in old new Mexico

Well here our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun

When a lightin' storm hit us

And it made the cattle run

We got all full of stickers

From the cactus that did grow

And the outlaws waitin' to pick us off in old new Mexico

Well our workin' season ended

But that drover would not pay

He said you went and drunk too much

You're all in debt to me

But the cowboys never had heard of

Such a thing as a bankrupt law

So we left that drover's bones to bleach

On the range of the buffalo