Buffalo Skinners

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[VERSE 1]
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Well come on you old time cowboys and listen to my song
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Please do not grow weary    I'll not detain you long
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Conserning some wild cowboys    who dare agree to go
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Spend the summer pleasant    on the trail of the buffalo

[VERSE 2]
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Well I found myself in Griffen in the spring of 83'
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When a well known famous drover    he came walkin' up to me
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He said, "How'd ya do young fella    how'd you like to go
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Spend the summer pleasant   on the range of the buffalo"

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Well me being outta work right then to the drover I did say
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Goin' out on your buffalo road depends upon your pay
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And if ya pay good wages    transpertation to and fro
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I think I might go with you   on the hunt of the buffalo

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Well of course I pay good wages and transpertation too
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If you agree to work with me until the season's thru
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But if you do get home sick    and ya try to run away
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Your gonna starve to death out on that trail
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and also loose your pay

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Well with all that flatterin' talkin' he signed up quite a train
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Some ten or twelve in number    all able bodied men
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And our tip it was a pleasant one   as we hit that westward road
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Until we crossed old Boggy Creek and old New Mexico

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That's when our pleasure ended and the troubles all begun
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It was a lightening storm that hit us and made all our horses run
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We got all full of stickers  from the cactus that did grow
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And the outlaws watched to pick us off   from the hills of Mexico

[VERSE 7]
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Well our workin season had ended but the drover would not pay
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He said you drunk up all your wages boys  your all in debt to me
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Us cowboys never had heard of such a thing as that new bankrupt law
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So we left that drovers bones to bleach on the trail of the buffalo