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    I?d heard Jack do this so many times? It was a trick getting him
    into the studio though. He?s hard to pin down. Dave Weber, our
    engineer, had an old Great Lakes fishing boat converted into a
    playhouse for his kids. It sat out in the yard, and you could still
    plainly read it?s name- GUMPTION. Well, Jack climbed in and out and
    all through that playhouse, telling us about how that boat had been
    sailed, how it had been rigged, and on and on?. Once in the studio,
    he became fascinated with one of Dave?s reverb settings (Jack?s
    whooping and hollering outlaws in the song)?. I love Jack.
     

        Buffalo Skinners (traditional)

        Well, come all you old-time cowboys, and listen to my song
        Please do not grow weary, I?ll not detain you long
        Concerning some wild cowboys that did agree to go
        and spend a summer pleasant on the hunt of the buffalo

        Well, I found myself in Griffin in the year of ?83
        When a well-known famous drover come walkin? up to me
        ?How do you do young fellow, and how?d you like to go
        and spend one summer pleasantly on the trail of the buffalo??

        Well, me bein? out of work right then to this drover I did say--
        This goin? out on the Buffalo Road depends upon your pay-
        But if you pay good wages and transportation to and fro,
        Yes, I?d like to go with you, on the hunt of the buffalo

        ?Well, yes I pay good wages and transportation too,
        if you?ll agree to work for me until the season?s through.
        But if you do grow homesick, and you try to run away--
        You?ll starve to death out on the trail-- and also lose your pay.?

        Well, with all this flattering talkin? he signed up quite a train
        Some 10 or 12 in number, some able-bodied men
        Our trip it was a pleasant one as we hit the westward road,
        until we reached old Bogey Creek, in old New Mexico

        It was there our pleasures ended and our troubles they begun
        A lightning storm hit us and it made the cattle run
        I got all full of stickers from the cactus that did grow
        Outlaws, watchin? for to pick us off from the hills of Mexico

        Well, the workin? season ended and that drover would not pay
        ?You went and drunk too much-- you?re all in debt to me!?
        But the cowboys had never heard of such a thing as a bankrupt law
        So we left the drover?s bones to bleach on the trail of the buffalo

         

     

         

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