Testo Buffalo Skinners - Struggle
Testo della canzone Buffalo Skinners (Struggle), tratta dall'album Struggle
Come on you old time cowboys and listen to my song
Please do not grow weary, I won't detain you long
Concerning some wild cowboy who did agree to go
And spend the summer pleasant on the trail of the buffalo
Found myself in Griffin by the spring of '83
When a man by the name of Crago come walking up to me
Say, "How do you do, young fellow, and how you'd like to go
And spend the summer pleasant on the trail of the buffalo?"
"I've been out of work till right then," to the drover I did say
"Going on the buffalo road depends upon the pay
But if you pay good wages, transportation to and fro
I think, I think I might go with you on the trail of the buffalo"
"Of course I pay good wages and transportation too
If you agree to work for me until the season's through
But if you do get homesick and try to run away
You'll starve to death out on the trail and also lose your pay"
With all the flattering talking he signed up quite a train
Some ten or twelve in number, some able-bodied men
Our trip it was a pleasant one through all New Mexico
Until we passed Pease River on the plains of the buffalo
'Twas there our pleasure ended and our troubles all began
A lightning storm out hit us and made the cattle run
We got all full of stickers from the cactus that did grow
Indians waiting to pick us off in the hills of Mexico
Well, the working season ended and the drover would not pay
"You earned the grub too much, you all in debt to me"
But the cowboys never had heard such a thing like a bankrupt law
So we let the bastards bone to bleed on the plains of the buffalo
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Writer(s): Woody Guthrie
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