I was round town, just spending my time Being out of a job and not earning a A fellow up and he says, "I suppose You're a bronc rider, the looks of your clothes"
"Well, you figured me right and I'm a good one, I Would you happen to any outlaws to tame?" He says, "I've got one and a one to buck At top riders, he's had lots of luck"
He says this, one pony that's never been rode And the man that gets on him is to get thrown I got all heated up and I what he'd pay To ride old nag for a couple of days
Well, he offered me ten and I say, "I'm man For the bronc living that I couldn't fan" He says, "Get saddle, I'll give you the chance" So we hopped in his buckboard and rode to his
Out in the horse corral, standing Is an old Cavallo, a strawberry pin ears that touch at the tip A big 44 upon his left hip
He was spavined all round and he had pigeon Little pig eyes and a big nose U-necked and old, a long lower jaw You could tell at a glance, a regular outlaw
Well, I buckle on my spurs and I'm sure feeling I pull down my hat and I up my twine Throw my loop on him and well, I then Before he gets rode, I'll earn my ten
I get the on him with a terrible fight comes the saddle and I cinch him up tight Then I step on him and up the blinds "Get out of the way, boys, he's to unwind"
Well, I threw him his head and I'll say he He seemed to quit down here on the ground Went up in the east and come down in the I'm up on him and doing my best
He sure was a frog-walker, he heaved a big He lacked wings for to be on the fly his old belly right up to the sun He sure was a sun son of a gun
He's about the worst bucker I've seen on the He could turn on a nickel and you some change I both my stirrups and also my hat I'm for leather and blind as a bat
He come on all fours and he went up on high And he left me a-spinning up in the sky Turned over twice and I come down to the And I lit into the day of his birth
Now I know there's ponies I cannot ride There's some of them living, they haven't all But I'll bet my money there's no man Who can stay with old Strawberry when he makes his high