Buffalo Skinners Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]Come[Dm] all [Am]you old
time [F]cowboys
[Am]And listen to my song
Please do not grow weary
I'll not detain you long

[Verse 2]
Concerning [A]some wild [Am]cowboys
Who did agree to [F]go[Am]
Spend the summer [A]pleas[Am] ant
On the trail of the buffalo

[Verse 3]
I [Am]found myself [F]in griffin
[Am]In the spring of '83
When a well known famous
drover
Come walking up to me

[Verse 4]
Said, "How do [Am]you do, young fellow
Well, how would you like to [F]go
[Am]And spend the [A]summer pleas[Am]ant
On the [F]trail of the [Am]buf falo?"

[Verse 5]
[Am]
Well, I being out of work right
[F]then
[Am]To the drover I did say
"Going out on the buffalo [A]road
De[Am]pends on the pay"

[Verse 6]
If you will pay good [Am]wages
And transportation [F]to and [Am]fro
I think I might go with you
On the hunt of the buffalo

[Verse 7]
[Am]Of course I'll pay good wa[F]ges
And [Am]transportation [A]too
[Am]If you will agree to work for me
Until the season's through

[Verse 8]
But if you do get [Am]homesick
And you try to run away
You will starve to death
Out on the trail and also lose your pay
Well with [F]all his [E]flattering [Am]talking[F]

[Verse 9]
He signed up [Am]quite a train
[F]Some [Am]10 or 12 in number
Some able bodied men

[Verse 10]
Our trip it was a pleasant [Am]one
As we [F]hit the Westward [Am]road
Until we [F]crossed Old Boggy [Am]Creek

[Verse 11]
In Old New Mexico
[Am]There our pleasures [F]ended
And [Am]our troubles all began
A lightening storm hit us
And made the cattle run

[Verse 12]
Got all [Am]full of stickers
[F]From [Am]the cactus [F]that did
[Bbm]not grow
And the outlaws watching
To [F]pick [Am]us off in the hills of Mexico
Well, our working [Am]season [F]ended

[Verse 13]
And the drover would not [Am]pay
[F]If you had not drunk [Am]too much[F]
You are all [Bbm]in deb[Am]t to me[Bbm]
But the cowboys [F]never [Am]had

[Verse 14]
[F]heard
Such a thing as [F]a bankrupt [Am]law
So we left that drover's
bones to [Am]bleach
On [F]the plains of the buffalo