Buffalo Skinners chords by Shenandoah and Arlo Guthrie

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Verse 1
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Traditional, arranged
By Arlo Guthrie
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Come all you old time cowboys
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And listen to my song
Please do not grow weary
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I'll not detain you long
Concerning some wild cowboys
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Who did agree to go
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And spend the summer pleasant
On the range of the buffalo.
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Verse 2
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Well I found myself in Griffin
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In eighteen eighty-three
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When When a man by
the name of Creagho
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Come a'walkin' up to me
Sayin "How do you
do young fella
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And how'd you like to go
And spend the summer pleasant
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On the range of the buffalo".

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Verse 3

Well me being out of work right then

To that drover I did say

"My goin' out on the buffalo range

Depends upon the pay

But if you pay good wages,

Transportation to and fro

I think I might go with you

On the range of the Buffalo".

Verse 4
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Well yes I pay good wages
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And transportation too
If you'll agree to work for me
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Until the season's through
But if you do get homesick
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And you try and run away
You'll starve to death out
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on the trail
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And you'll also lose your pay

Verse 5
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Well with all the flatterin' talkin'
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He signed up quite a train
Some ten or twelve in number
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Of able bodied men
And our trip it was a pleasant one
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Through all New Mexico
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Until we crossed Pease River
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On the range of the buffalo

Verse 6
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It was there our pleasures ended
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And our troubles all begun
A lightnin' storm come up on us
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And made the cattle run
We got full of the stickers
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On the cactus that did grow
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And the outlaws waited to pick us off
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In the hills of Mexico

Interlude 1

Well the working season ended

Verse 7
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But the drover would not pay
He said "You spent your
money boys
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You're all in debt to me".
But the cowboys never put much stock
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In a thing like a bankrupt law
So we left the bastard's
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bones to bleach
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On the range of the buffalo.
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