Zebra Dun Lyrics
Zebra Dun - Cisco Houston
We were camped on the bend
At the head of the Cimmarron
When along come a stranger
And he stopped to argue some
Well he looked so very foolish
We began to look around
We thought he was a greenhorn
Just escaped from town
He said he'd lost his job
Upon the Sante Fe
And was going cross the prairie
To strike the 7D
He didn't say how come it
Some trouble with the boss
And asked if he could borrow
A fat saddle horse
This tickled all the boys to death
They laughed right up their sleeves
Oh we will lend you a fine horse
As fresh as fat as you please
Then Shorty grabbed the lariat
And he roped the Zebra Dun
And he gave him to the stranger
And waited for the fun
Now old Dunny was an outlaw
He had grown so very wild
Well he could paw the moon down
Boys he could jump a mile
Old Dunny stood right still
As if he didn't know
Until he was saddle
And a ready for the go
When the stranger hit the saddle
Well old Dunny quit the earth
He traveled right straight upwards
For all that he was worth
A bucking and a squealing
And a having wall eyed fits
His hind feet perpendicular
His front feet in the bits
We could see the tops of the mountains
Under Dunny's every jump
The stranger he was growed there
Like the camel's hump
The stranger sat upon him
And he curled his black mustache
Just like a summer boarder
Who was waiting for his hash
Well he thumped him in the shoulders
And he spurred him when he whirled
He hollered to the punchers
"I'm the wolf of the world "
And when he had dismounted
Once more upon the ground
We knew he was a thoroughbred
And not a gent from town
Now the boss who was a standing around
A watching of the show
He walked up to the stranger
And he said he needn't go
If you can handle a lariat
Like you rode the Zebra Dun
You're the man that I've been looking
For since the year of one
Well there's one thing and a sure thing
I've learned since I've been born
That every educated feller
Ain't a plumb greenhorn