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'Twas in the town o' Jacksboro, in the spring o' seventy-three

A man by the name o' Crego come steppin' up to me

Said how d'you do young fellers, and how'd you like to go

And spend one summer pleasantly on the range o' the buffalo

It's me bein' out of employment, to ol' Crego I did say

This goin' out on the buffalo range, depends upon the pay

But if you'll pay good wages, and transportation too

I think sir I will go with you to the range o' the buffalo

Well it's now we've crossed Pease River boys, our troubles they have begun

First old stinker that I cut - Christ how I cut my thumb

While skinnin' the dog-gone ol' buffalo, our lives they had no show

For the Indians watched to pick us off, while skinnin' the buffalo

The season bein' near over, ol' Crego he did say

The crowd had been extravagant, was in debt to him that day

We coaxed him an' we argued, but still it was no go

We left his damned ol' bones to bleached on the range o' the buffalo

It's now we've crossed Pease River, and homeward we are bound

No more in that old fire country, will ever we be found

Go back to our wives and sweethearts, tell others not to go

For God's forsaken the buffalo range, and the damn ol' buffalo

Autor(en): Woody Guthrie

Album American Folk Anthology

Veröffentlichungsdatum

29-05-2009

1 Pretty Polly
2 The Three Butchers
3 John Henry
4 The Titanic Disaster
5 Fair Margaret and Sweet William
6 John Hardy
7 The Golden Vanity
8 Gypsy Davy
9 The Farmer's Curst Wife
10 Down in Carlisle
11 St.James Hospital
12 Jesse James
13 Barbara Allen
14 Sioux Indians
15 Tex-I-An Boys
16 Hold the Fort
17 Ground Hog
18 The Derby Ram
19 Down In the Valley
20 Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
21 The Blue Tail Fly
22 Yankee Doodle
23 Cielito Lindo
24 Wabash Cannonball
25 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
26 Skip to My Lou
27 The Wagoner's Lad
28 The Wreck of the Old '97
29 Old Dan Tucker
30 I Ride an Old Paint
31 Frankie and Johnnie
32 On Top of Old Smokey
33 The Big Rock Candy Mountain
34 Home On the Range
35 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
36 She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
37 Peg and Awl
38 The Blind Fiddler
39 Buffalo Skinners
40 Eight-Hour Day
41 Hard Times in the Mill
42 Roll Down the Line
43 Hayseed Like Mine
44 The Farmer Is the Man
45 Come All You Hardy Miners
46 Hi Lies In the American Land
47 Casey Jones
48 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
49 Cotton Mill Colic
50 Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat
51 Mill Mother's Lament
52 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
53 Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
54 The Death of Harry Simms
55 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
56 Ballad of Barney Graham
57 My Children are Seven in Number
58 Raggedy
59 Pittsburgh Town
60 Sixty Per Cent

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