Bob Dylan - Trail of the Buffalo lyrics

Come round you old time cowboys, and listen to my song Please do not grow weary, I will not detain you long Concerning some young cowboy, who did agree to go Spend the summer pleasantly on the trail of the buffalo Well I found myself in Griffin, in the year of '83 When a world-famous drover come a-walkin' up to me Sayin', "How d'ya do young cowboy. how'd you like to go Spend the summer pleasantly on the trail of the buffalo?" Well me being out of work right then, at this drover I did say "This a-goin' out on the buffalo range depends upon your pay But if you pay good wages, transportation to and fro' Think I might go with you on the hunt of the buffalo." "yes I will pay good wages and transportation too If you'll 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 d**h on the prairie and also lose your pay." Well with all this flatterin' talkin', he signed up quite a train Some ten to twelve in number, some able-bodied men Our trip it was a pleasant one as we hit the westward road Until we hit old Boggy Creek in old New Mexico Well there our pleasures ended and our troubles they begun A lightin' storm did hit us, made the cattle run I got all full of stickers from the cactus that did grow Outlaws watchin' to pick us off from the hills of the buffalo Well our workin' season ended, but the drover would not pay He said, "You went and drunk too much, you're all in debt to me." But the cowboys never did hear of such a thing as a bankrupt law So we left tht drover's bones to bleach on the hills of the buffalo