As I was walking down the street Down the street, down the street A pretty girl I chanced to meet And we danced by the light of the moon CHORUS: Buffalo
matted, their backs are all raw CHORUS: Ride around little dogies, ride around them slow For the fiery and snuffy are rarin' to go Old Bill Jones had a daughter and a son
Well, the new sheriff wrote me a letter Yes, the new sheriff wrote me a letter Come up and see me, dead or alive Come up and see me, dead or alive CHORUS
When evening chores are over at the ranch house on the plains And there's nothing left to do but lay around I saddle up my pony and go riding down the
left behind me CHORUS: That sweet little gal, that true little gal The gal I left behind me That sweet little gal, that pretty little gal The gal I left behind me The wind
So you ask me my kind friend Why I am sad and still And why my brow is darkened Like the clouds upon the hill Rein in your ponies closer And I'll tell
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo As I walked out in Laredo one day I spied a poor cowboy wrapped up in white linen All wrapped in white linen
While we're on the subject of hard work, I just wanted to say that I always was a man to work. I was born working and I worked my way up by hard work
Cattle prowl and the coyotes howl Out on the Great Divide Never done no wrong, just singin' a song As down the trail I ride Rattle snakes rattle at