Popped my foot in the stirrup and I gave a mighty yell It looked like to me we's gonna lose them all.
The wind began to blow and the rain began to fall It‘s cloudy in the west and a-lookin‘ like rain,Īnd my damned old slicker‘s in the wagon again.
I‘m working mighty hard for mighty little pay. Going to Texas to punch them longhorn cattleĪnd afore I sleeps, the moon shines bright.Ī-roping and a-tying and a-branding all day, Now, a ten-dollar horse and a forty-dollar saddle, Ĭome a ti-yi yippee, yippee yeah, yippee yeah, I'll tell you of my troubles on the Old Chisholm Trail. Well, come along boys and listen to my tale, They tell the tales of actual events, honest emotions and above all of real people: the buffalo hunter Crego, Quanah Parker, Charlie and Mary Goodnight, Bob Fudge, the Blocker brothers, Bessie Mulhern, Wagner Dodge as well as the Cherokee cowboy, the Mexican immigrants, the unemployed cowboys, the dead hobo and all the others who remain nameless. There is nothing fanciful about these songs. For many, rootlessness became a way of life and some never found their way home. Work was to be had, yes, but it demanded men willing to following it, building dams, cutting trees and harvesting wheat. Some were overwhelmed by the vastness of the land and their own isolation therein. For most, the dream of gold proved to be a nightmare. Immigrants came to the West seeking gold and work and hope. Their destruction paved the way for the future. The buffalo herds were still enormous and the Comanches and other plains peoples still lived free, but both were doomed. Riding wild mustangs, cowboys - former southern soldiers, former slaves, vaqueros from Mexico, all just a step past boyhood - drove longhorn cattle north to the railheads in Kansas and to the northern plains beyond. It's a journey through a wild and windy land, a journey through time and a tough trip of transformation, from the buffalo range to the cattle range, from prairie grass to power dam.
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