Key: G# minor•
Verse 1
G#m
B
It happened in Jacksboro, boys,
D#m
B
When a man by the name of Crego
G#m
D#m
B
came stepping up to me
F#
B
Says, how do you do, young fellow,
G#m
B
G#m
and how would you like to go?
G#
B
And spend one summer pleasantly
G#m
B
on the range of the buffalo
G#m
B
It's me being out of employment,
G#
B
boys, this to Crego I did say.
This going out on the Buffalo Range
G#m
B
G#
G#m
pay transportation too.
G#
G#m
B
G#m
G#
I think sir I will go with you
D#m
B
to the range of the buffalo
F#
B
provided you will go with me
G#
B
and stay the summer through
G#
B
G#
but if you should grow homesick
D#m
B
come back to Jacksboro.
G#
F#
It's now we've
The first damn tail I went to rip,
G#m
D#m
B
G#m
Christ how I cut my thumb.
G#
D#m
B
the water I could never go.
G#
B
D#m
G#
And the engines watched to pick us off
D#m
B
on the range of the buffalo.
D#m
G#m
Our meat, it was buffalo hock
D#m
B
and iron wage bread.
G#m
B
And all we had to sleep on
G#
D#m
F#
was a buffalo robe for a bed.
G#m
B
The fleas and graybacks work on us.
G#m
F#
D#m
B
G#m
Oh, boys, they are not slow.
G#
B
I'll say there's no worse hell on earth
than the range of the buffalo.
G#m
B
G#m
The season being ended, boys,
that we had been extravagant.
G#m
D#m
We're in debt to him that day,
F#
B
we coaxed him and we begged him,
G#
B
but still it was no go.
G#m
F#
G#
We left his damned old bones to bleach
F#
B
G#
An d now we've crossed these river
boys
No more in that hell -fired country
F#
B
will ever we be found.
Go back to our wives and sweethearts,
F#
D#m
B
G#
tell others not to go.
F#
B
G#m
For God's forsaken that Buffalo Range
B
F#
and the damned old Buffalo.
you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG#m B D#m F# G#
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