I'm Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows歌詞

I'm Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows - Alan Lomax
I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows
Until I get too old
It's well I work for wages boys
And get my pay in gold
My bosses they all like me well;
They say I'm hard to beat
Because I give 'em the bum stand-off
They know I've got the cheek
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Now I'm a Texas cowboy just off the stormy plains
My trade is girtin' saddles and pullin' bridle reins
Oh I can tip the lasso; it is with graceful ease
I can rope a streak of lightnin'
And ride 'er where I please
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Now if I had me a little stake
I soon would married be
But another week and I must go;
The boss said so today
My girl must cheer up courage
And choose some other one
For I'm bound to follow the Lone Star Trail
Until my race is won
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It's when we're on the trail
Where the dust and the billows fly
It's fifty miles from water
And the grass is scorchin' dry;
The boss gets mad and ringy
As you can plainly see
And I want to leave the trail my boys
And an honest farmer be
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And when we get them bedded boys
We think it's for the night
Some horse will shake his saddle
And give that herd a fright
They'll rise up to their feet my boys
And madly dash away
Then it's movin' time;
"To the lead my boys "
You'll hear some cowboy say
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And when we get them rounded up
And quietened down again
A dark cloud will rise in the west
And fire will play on their horns
The boss will say
"Stay with 'em boys; your pay will be in gold "
I'm bound to follow the longhorn steer
Until I get too old
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When I get in Kansas I had a pleasant dream
I dreamt I's down on the Trinity
Down by that pleasant stream
My true love right beside me
She'd come to go my bail
But I woke up broken-hearted
With a yearling by the tail
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