Lyrics Ox-Driver Song - Odetta

It was early in October
Oh, I hitched my team in order
Oh, to ride the hills (Ride the hills)
Of Salini, oh

Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh

I pop my whip (Yah!)
I bring the blood (Yah!)
I make my leaders take the mud
We grabbed the wheels (Grab the wheels)
And we turned them around (Yah!)
One round (Yah!)
Rolling 'round (Yah!)
On the ground

Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh

When I got there, the hills were steep
Would make a tender person weep
To hear me curse (Hear me curse)
And pop my whip (Yah!)
And see my oxen fall and slip

Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh

When I get home, I'll have revenge
I'll have my family, I'll have my friends
I'll say goodbye (Say goodbye)
To the whip and the line (Yah!)
I'll drive no more in the wintertime

Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh

It was early in October
Oh, I hitched my team in order
Oh, to ride the hills (Ride the hills)
Of Salini, oh

Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh
Tumero, tumero, tumeridee, oh

Woo!
Woo!
Yah!