《I’m Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows》歌词

[00:00:00] I'm Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows - Alan Lomax/Avon Cities Skiffle Group/Fannie Davis/Louis Metcalf

[00:00:00] I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows

[00:00:03] Until I get too old

[00:00:07] It's well I work for wages boys

[00:00:10] And get my pay in gold

[00:00:14] My bosses they all like me well

[00:00:16] They say I'm hard to beat

[00:00:19] Because I give 'em the bum stand off

[00:00:21] They know I've got the cheek

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[00:00:35] Now I'm a Texas cowboy

[00:00:39] Just off the stormy plains

[00:00:42] My trade is girtin' saddles

[00:00:45] And pullin' bridle reins

[00:00:48] Oh I can tip the lasso

[00:00:50] It is with graceful ease

[00:00:52] I can rope a streak of lightnin'

[00:00:56] And ride 'er where I please

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[00:01:11] Now if I had me a little stake

[00:01:13] I soon would married be

[00:01:15] But another week and I must go

[00:01:17] The boss said so today

[00:01:20] My girl must cheer up courage

[00:01:23] And choose some other one

[00:01:26] For I'm bound to follow the Lone Star Trail

[00:01:28] Until my race is won

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[00:01:42] It's when we're on the trail

[00:01:43] Where the dust and the billows fly

[00:01:46] It's fifty miles from water

[00:01:48] And the grass is scorchin' dry

[00:01:53] The boss gets mad and ringy

[00:01:55] As you can plainly see

[00:01:57] And I want to leave the trail my boys

[00:01:59] And an honest farmer be

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[00:02:09] And when we get them bedded

[00:02:10] Boys

[00:02:11] We think it's for the night

[00:02:13] Some horse will shake his saddle

[00:02:15] And give that herd a fright

[00:02:19] They'll rise up to their feet my boys

[00:02:21] And madly dash away

[00:02:23] Then it's movin' time

[00:02:25] To the lead my boys

[00:02:26] You'll hear some cowboy say

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[00:02:38] And when we get them rounded up

[00:02:40] And quietened down again

[00:02:42] A dark cloud will rise in the west

[00:02:44] And fire will play on their horns

[00:02:47] The boss will say

[00:02:48] Stay with 'em boys

[00:02:49] Your pay will be in gold

[00:02:52] I'm bound to follow the longhorn steer

[00:02:54] Until I get too old

[00:02:56] Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay

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[00:03:07] When I get in Kansas

[00:03:09] I had a pleasant dream

[00:03:12] I dreamt I's down on the Trinity

[00:03:14] Down by that pleasant stream

[00:03:17] My true love right beside me

[00:03:19] She'd come to go my bail

[00:03:22] But I woke up broken hearted

[00:03:24] With a yearling by the tail

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