Artist: | Dave Stamey (English) |
User: | ralph estes |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
I was hanging round town, just spending my time,
Out of a job, not earning a dime,
When a fellow steps up, and he says, "I suppose
You're a bronc fighter, by the looks of your clothes."
"You figures me right. I'm a good one, I claim.
Do you happen to have any bad ones to tame?"
He says, "I've got one, a bad one to buck,
At throwing good riders he's had lots of luck."
Last 5 words: A7-G-D-A7- D
Well, I gets all het up and I asks what he pays
To ride this old nag for a couple of days.
He offers me ten, I says, "I'm your man,
The bronc never lived that I couldn't fan."
He says, "Get your saddle, I'll give you a chance."
In his buckboard we hops and we drives to the ranch.
I stays till morning, then right after chuck
I steps out to see if this outlaw can buck.
Down in the horse corral standing alone,
An old caballo, a strawberry roan.
His legs’re all spavined, he’s got pigeon toes,
Little pig eyes and a big Roman nose,
Little pin ears that touch at the tip,
A big 44 brand on his left hip;
Ewe-necked and old, with a long lower jaw,
I could tell with one eye he's a reg'lar outlaw.
I gets the blinds on him, and it sure is a fright
Next comes the saddle, and I screws it down tight
Then I climbs on him, and raises the blinds,
"Get outta the way, boys, he's gonna unwind!"
He sure is a frog-walker, he heaves a big sigh,
He only likes wings for to be on the fly.
He turns his old belly right up to the sun
He sure is a sun-fishin' son of a gun!
He's about the worst bucker I've seen on the range
He can turn on a nickel and give you some change.
He hits on all fours, then he goes up on high
Just leaves me a-spinning’ up there in the sky
I turns over twice, and I comes back to earth
I lights in a-cussin' the day of his birth
Now I know there are ponies that I cannot ride
There’s some of them living, they haven't all died.
But I'll bet all my money a man ain't alive
Who can stay with old strawberry
when he makes his high dive. Last 4 words: A7-G-A7- D