BUFFALO SKINNERS Come all you all 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 Spend the summer pleasant on the trail of the buffalo. I found myself in Dripping in the spring of eightythree, When a well-known famous drover come walking up to me. Said, "How d'you do, young fellow? Well how'd you like to go And spend the summer pleasant on the trail of the buffalo?" Well, I being out of work right then to the drover I did say, "Going out on the buffalo road depends upon your pay. If you pay good wages, transportation to and fro, I think I might go with you on the hunt of the buffalo. "Of course, I'll 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 to run away- You'll starve to death out on the trail and also lose your pay." Well, with all this flattering talking, he signed up quite a train- Some ten or twelve in number, some able-bodied men. Our trip it was a pleasant one as we hit the westward road. Until we crossed old Boggy' Creek in Old New Mexico. There our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun, A lightning storm it hit us and made the cattle run. We got all full of stickers from the cactus that did grow, And outlaws watching to pick us off in the hills of Mexico. Well, our working season ended, and the drover would not pay. "You haven't got too much - you're all in debt to me." But the cowboys never had heard such a thing as a bankrupt law; So we left that drover's bones to bleach on the plains of the buffalo. Da "The Woody Guthrie songbook" (vedi bibliografia) Woody Guthrie > canzoni > Buffalo Skinners - The Asch Recordings Vol 4