Desert Blues (big Chief Buffalo Nickel) - Leon Redbone

Way out on the wind-swept desert

Where nature played with no man

A buffalo found his brother

Lying baked on the sun-baked sand

Said my brother what ails you

A sickness got you this way

His brother never said

'Cause his brother was dead

He been dead since way last May

Big Chief Buffalo Nickel

Might a mighty man in his day

He never want used a sickle

To clear the bushes away

He'd roam around from tent to tent

Eat everything in sight

He loved a squaw every one he saw

He loved a new one every night

Oddli wuli li li

Way out on the wind-swept desert

I heard a big noise

I left my tent I knew what it meant

What I never known before

It was gone when I reached St Pete

My legs were certainly sore

I musta lost 50 pounds

On that hot desert ground

And I'd lose that many more

Odli wuli li li li

Ah oddli wuli li