Buffalo Skinners Lyrics

The song Buffalo Skinners is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named American Folk Legend in the year 2005 .



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
Spend the summer pleasant
On the trail of the buffalo

I found myself in griffin
In the spring of '83
When a well known famous drover
Come walking up to me

Said, "How do you do, young fellow
Well, how would 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 on the pay"

If you will pay good wages
And 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 will agree to work for me
Until the season's through

But if you do get homesick
And you try to run away
You will starve to death
Out on the trail and also lose your pay

Well with all his flattering talking
He signed up quite a train
Some 10 or 12 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 began
A lightening storm hit us
And made the cattle run

Got all full of stickers
From the cactus that did not grow
And the outlaws watching
To pick us off in the hills of Mexico

Well, our working season ended
And the drover would not pay
If you had not drunk too much
You are 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



Woody Guthrie - American Folk Legend

Dec 2005

  1. Pastures of Plenty
  2. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)
  3. Hard, Ain't It Hard
  4. Car Song
  5. Ramblin' Round
  6. Ship in the Sky
  7. Sinking of the Reuben James
  8. Do-Re-Mi
  9. Jesus Christ
  10. When the Curfew Blows (Curfew Blow)
  11. 1913 Massacre
  12. Talking Fishing Blues
  13. Pretty Boy Floyd
  14. Grand Coulee Dam
  15. Hard Travelin'
  16. Wreck of the Old '97
  17. Sally Goodin'
  18. Farmer-Labor Train
  19. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
  20. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
  21. Jesse James
  22. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
  23. When That Great Ship Went Down
  24. Billy the Kid
  25. Buffalo Gals
  26. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
  27. Slipknot (Hangknot, Skipknot)
  28. New York Town
  29. This Land Is Your Land
  30. Buffalo Skinners
  31. Mule Skinner Blues
  32. Jarama Valley
  33. New Found Land
  34. Talking Columbia
  35. Talking Sailor
  36. Cowboy Waltz
  37. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  38. Chisholm Trail
  39. Ranger's Command
  40. Stackolee
  41. Danville Girl
  42. Better World A-Comin'

Buffalo Skinners