Lyrics




When I was a cowboy
Out on the western plains
When I was a cowboy
Out on the western plains
I made a half a million
Pullin' on the bridle reins
Come a ki-ki--yicky
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
I went to my girl's house
She's sittin' d'ere alone
Went to my girl's house
She's sittin' d'ere alone
I'm a poor western cowboy
A long way from home
Come a ki-ki--yicky
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
When I left my girl's house
She was rockin' in her rockin' chair
When I left my girl's house
She was rockin' in her rockin' chair
Poor western cowboy
Please don't you leave me here
Come a ki-ki--yicky
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Went to my girl's house
Sitting deep down in my saddle
Went to my girl's house
Sitting deep down in my saddle
I'm the best western cowboy
That ever herd cattle
Come a ki-ki--yicky
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Oh, de hardest battle
Was there ever on the western plains
Oh, de hardest battle
Was there ever on the western plains
When me an a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James
Come a ki-ki--yicky
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Me an a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James
Me an a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James
All the bullets was a-fallin'
Just like a shower rain
Come a ki-ki--yicky
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
Come all you cowboys
Don't you wanna go?
Come all you cowboys
Don't you wanna go?
Gon see the ranges
On the range in *Buffalo
Come a cow ki--yicky
Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yea
Take de hardest battle
Was there ever on Bunker Hill
Oh, de hardest battle
Was there ever on Bunker Hill
When me an' a bunch of cowboys
Run into Buffalo Bill
Come a cow ki--yicky
Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yea
Come all you cowboys
Don't you wanna hear?
Come all you cowboys
Don't you wanna hear?
O'vr nineteen hundred
Bullets around your ear
Come a cow ki--yicky
Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yeah.



Writer(s): Traditional


Lead Belly - Shorty George
Album Shorty George
date of release
15-02-2015

1   Shorty George (Take 1)
2   Raccoon Up the 'Simmon Tree
3   Send Down Your Hand (Take 2)
4   Scottsboro Boys
5   Outshine the Sun
6   Rock Island Line
7   You Can't Lose-a Me Cholly
8   Somethin' Somethin' Keeps-A-Worrin' Me
9   The Boll Weevil
10   How Long
11   Ol' Riley
12   Old Man
13   Old Man Settin' In the Corner Dyin'
14   Way Over In the Promised Land (Take 1)
15   Worried Blues
16   Western Cowboy
17   Soldier In the Army of My Lord
18   The Shreveport Jail
19   The Maid Freed From the Gallows
20   Pig Meat Papa
21   Take A Whiff On Me
22   The Gallows Song
23   New Black Snake Moan
24   Red River Blues
25   Send Down Your Hand (Take 1)
26   My Friend Blind Lemon
27   The Bourgeois Blues
28   The Gallis Pole
29   On A Monday
30   Pick A Bale Of Cotton
31   Must I Be Carried To the Sky On Flowered Beds of Ease
32   Thirty Days In the Workhouse
33   Way Over In the Promised Land (Take 2)
34   Witness For My Lord
35   Roberta
36   Whoa Back, Buck
37   Good Morning Blues
38   Noted Rider Blues
39   Po' Howard
40   What's You Goin' Do With Your Long Tall Daddy
41   When That Train Comes Along
42   Irene
43   Red Cross Store Blues
44   Redbird
45   Shorty George (Take 2)
46   The Grey Goose
47   Packin' Trunk Blues
48   Take This Hammer
49   New York City
50   Skip To My Lou
51   Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
52   Polly-Polly-Wee
53   Salty Dog
54   The Blood Done Sign My Name




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