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Lyrics for Old Chizzum Chisholm Trail by Unknown:
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| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Old Chizzum Chisholm Trail | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 171 | | | | Lyrics: | The Old Chizzum (Chisholm) Trail
Come along, boys, and listen to my tale,
I'll tell
you of my troubles on the Old Chizzum Trail.
Coma-ti yi yippy, yippy yea, yippy
yea,
Coma-ti yi yippy, yippy yea.
I was born in Texas in the year '89,
I
can ride anything this side the state line.
Went down to San Antone and went to workin'
cattle,
And here come t&e sheep men and we had a battle.
There ain't no better
territory in the United States,
But she shore is hotter than hell's own gates.
It's
I an' Bill Jones was good old cronies,
We was always together on our sore-backed
ponies.
We left Nelson Ranch on June twenty-third,
With a drove of Texas cattle, two
thousand in the herd.
We whooped them through Gonzales, night was drawin' nigh
We
bedded them down on a hill close by.
Foot in the stirrup, my seat in the
saddle,
Best little cowboy that ever rode a-straddle.
Slicker in the wagon and
pouring down hail,
Goin' round the herd with a dogie by the tail.
It's rainin' like
hell and it's gittin' mighty cold,
And the long-horned sons-a-guns are gittin' mighty hard to
hold.
Saddle up boys, and saddle up well,
For I think these cattle have scattered to
hell.
Me and old Blue Dog arrived on the spot,
And we put them to milling like the
boiling of a pot.
I'm on my best horse and I am goin' on a run,
I'm the quickest-shootin'
cowboy that ever pulled a gun.
I flushed them left, couldn't get 'em to stop, .
I
can run as long as an eight-day clock.
My seat in the saddle and I gave a little
shout
The lead cattle broke an' the herd went about.
My quirt in my hand, my slicker
on my saddle,
I hung and rattled with them goddam cattle.
Some of 'em we captured
without half tryin',
They was so damned scared they didn't need hog-tyin'.
We strung
'em out next mornin', and the boss made a count
And he said, "Boys, we are just a few
out."
"Make a circle, boys, and don't lose no time,
I am sure they will be easy to
find."
It was over the hillside and over the draws,
And we soon brought in the old Two
Bars
It's bacon and beans 'most every day
I'd as soon been eatin' prairie
hay.
I hit my little pony and he give a little rack,
And damned big luck if we ever
get back.
I hit my little pony and he give a little rack,
And damned big luck if we
ever get back.
I'm headed south just whoopin' and a-yellin',
If I don't find a
steer, I'll take a heifer yearling.
Jumped in the saddle and hit him with my
quirt,
The hind cinch busted and the saddle hit the dirt.
With my blankets and my gun and
a rawhide rope,
I'm a-slidin' down the trail in a long keen lope.
I'll chew my tobacco and
I'll squirt my juice,
I'm goin' down to town to see the old Blue Goose.
I went to
the bar and struck on a bell,
Here comes a bunch of niggers running like
hell.
Pulled out my gun, brought it on the level,
And them damn niggers run like the
devil.
And they got me by the foreleg and put me in jail,
And I couldn't find a damn
soul to go my bail.
Boss come around with a whip in his hand
And he swore, by God, I
wasn't worth a damn.
I sold my horse and I sold my saddle,
You can go to hell with
your longhorn cattle.
I'm goin' back home, I'm not jokin' or lyin',
I'm goin' back
home, just a-yellin' and a-flyin'.
I hunted up the boss to draw my roll,
He figgered
me out eight dollars in the hole.
I'm goin' downtown to get a little dope
'Cause my
back's all broke from the draggin' of the rope.
Jumped on the train and gave such a
yell,
The goose-back broke and the train went to hell.
When I thought of my gal I
nearly would cry,
I'll quit herding cows in the sweet by and by.
I hadn't been at
home but some days two or three
When I put off my gal for to see.
"If you've made up
your mind to quit the cowboy life,
I have fully decided to be your little wife."
Farewell,
old paint, I wish you no harm,
I've done quit the business to go on the farm.
No
more a cow-puncher to sleep at my ease,
'Mid the crawlin' of the lice and the bitin' of the
fleas.
Woke up one mornin' on the old Chizzum Trail
With my pecker in my hand and a
cow by the tail
(alt. cho:)
Come and tie my pecker to a tree, to a tree
Come and tie my pecker to a tree.
Stray in the herd, and the boss says "Kill
it"
So I shot it in the ass with the handle of a skillet.
First time I seed her she
was floatin' down stream
With her ass blowin' bubbles and her pussy flowin'
cream
Fucked her standin' and I fucked her lyin'
If she's had wings I'd of fucked
her flyin'.
Last time I seed her, and I ain't seed her since
She was jackin' off a bull
through a barbed wire fence.
Jumped in the saddle, and the saddle wasn't there
So I sunk
eight inches in the old gray mare.
My seat's in the saddle and my saddle's in the
sky
I'll quit punchin' cows in the sweet by and by.
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