Buffalo Skinners Chords

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[Verse 1]
It [Em]happened in [G]Jacksboro, boys,
[Em]in the year of seventy -three
[Bm]When a [G]man by the name of Crego
[Em]came [Bm]stepping up to m[G]e
[D]Says, how [G]do you do, young fellow,
[Em]and how would you [G]like to [Em]go?
[E]And [G]spend one summer pleasantly
[Em]on t[G]he range of the buffalo
[Em]It's me being out [G]of employment,
[E]boys, this to Crego [G]I did say.
This going out on the Buffalo Range
depends [Em]upon the pay.
[G]But if you will pay good wages,
[Em]pay transport[G]ation [E]too.[Em]
[E]I t[Em]hink s[G]ir I w[Em]ill go with y[E]ou
to [Bm]the range [G]of the buffalo
[E]yes I will pay good wages
boys this [G]old Krigo he did say
[D]provided [G]you will go with me
[E]and [G]stay the summer through
but [E]if you should [G]grow homesick[E]
come [Bm]back to Jacks[G]boro.
[E]I will not pay your transportation
from the range [G]of the Buffalo.
[E]It's [D]now we've
[E]crossed Pease River boys,
our [G]troubles have begun.
The first damn tail I went to rip,
[Em]Christ [Bm]how I cut my thum[G]b.[Em]
[G]Pease River is salty as held fire,
[E]the [Bm]water I could n[G]ever go.
[E]And the[G] engines wat[Bm]ched to pick us [E]off
[Bm]on the range of the [G]buffalo.
[Bm]Our [Em]meat, it was buffalo hock
an[Bm]d iron [G]wage bread.
[Em]And all we had t[G]o sleep on
[E]was a buf[Bm]falo robe [D]for a bed.
[Em]The fleas and graybacks work o[G]n us.
[Em]Oh, boys[D], they[Bm] are not s[G]low.[Em]
[E]I'll [G]say there's no worse hell on earth
than the range of the buffalo.
[Em]The season being[G] ended[Em], boys,
[G]this old Krigo he did say
that we had been extravagant.
[Em]We're in [Bm]debt to him that day,
[D]we coaxed him and we [G]begged him,
[E]but still it [G]was no go.
[Em]We left [D]his damn[E]ed old bones to bleach
on [G]the range of the buffalo.
[D]An d now [G]we've [E]crossed these river
boys
and homeward [G]we are bound.
No more in that hell -fired country
will [D]ever [G]we be found.
Go back to our wives and sweethearts,
[D]tell others [Bm]not [G]to go.[E]
For [D]God's [G]forsaken that Buffalo [Em]Range
[G]and the damned [D]old Buffalo.
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