When I Was A Cowboy Lyrics
When I Was a Cowboy - Leadbelly
When I was a cowboy
Out on the western plains
When I was a cowboy
Out on the western plains
I made a half a million
Pullin on the bridle reins
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Oh de hardest battle
Was there ever on the western plains
Oh de hardest battle
Was there ever on the western plains
When me an a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
When me an a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James
When me an a bunch of cowboys
Run into Jesse James
All the bullets was a fallin
Just like a shower rain
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Oh de hardest battle
Was there ever on bucckles hear
Oh de hardest battle
Was there ever on bucckles hear
When me an a bunch of cowboys
Run into Buffalo Bill
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
The boys had it all in for a man
On the outskirts a town
And they had made the hosses drunk
They had made them 45's drunk ha
And the boys is already
Then they got drunk
And all around that man's house
Them hosses was a walkin
And them 45's was a talkin
And they shot out best regards
To that man and here what they says
De house catch de fire
And they ain't no water round
If yo house catch de fire
And they ain't no water round
Throw yo jelly out de window
Let de doggone shack burn down
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Come all you cowboys
Don't you wanna go
Come all you cowboys
Don't you wanna go
Come meet de Lone Ranger
On a range of Buffalo
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah
Come a cow ki yicky
Come a cow ki yicky yicky yeah