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