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, concerning some wild cowboys, who did agree to go, and spend the summer pleasant, on the range of the buffalo. well i found myself in griffin, in eighteen eighty-three, when a man by the name of creagho, come a'walkin' up to me, 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". well me being out of work right then, to that drover 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". well yes i 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 and run away, you'll starve to death out on the trail, and you'll also lose your pay, well with all the flatterin' talkin', he signed up quite a train, some ten or twelve in number, of able bodied men, and our trip it was a pleasant one, through all new mexico, until we crossed pease river, on the range of the buffalo, it was there our pleasures ended, and our troubles all begun, a lightnin' storm come up on us, and made the cattle run, we got full of the stickers, on the cactus that did grow, and the outlaws waited to pick us off, in the hills of mexico, well the working season ended, but the drover would not pay, he said "you spent your money boys, you're all in debt to me". but the cowboys never put much stock, in a thing like a bankrupt law, so we left the bastard's bones to bleach, on the range of the buffalo.