I was round town, just spending my time Being out of a job and not earning a A walks up and he says, "I suppose You're a bronc rider, from the looks of clothes"
"Well, you me right and I'm a good one, I claim Would you happen to have any to tame?" He says, "I've got one and a good one to At throwing top riders, had lots of luck"
He says this, here's one pony never been rode And the man gets on him is bound to get thrown I got all heated up and I asked 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 isn't living that I fan" He says, "Get your saddle, I'll you the chance" So we hopped in his buckboard and rode to his
Out in the corral, standing alone Is an old Cavallo, a strawberry pin ears that touch at the tip A big 44 brand upon his hip
He was spavined all round and he had pigeon Little pig eyes and a big nose and old, with 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 my loop on him and well, I know then Before he rode, I'll sure earn my ten
I get the on him with a terrible fight Next comes the and I cinch him up tight I step on him and raise up the blinds "Get out of the way, boys, he's to unwind"
Well, I him his head and I'll say he unwound He seemed to living down here on the ground Went up in the and come down in the west I'm sitting up on him and doing my
He sure was a frog-walker, he a big sigh He only wings for to be on the fly Turned his old right up to the sun He was a sun fishing son of a gun
He's about the worst bucker I've on the range He could turn on a and give you some change I lost my stirrups and also my hat I'm reaching for and blind as a bat
He come down on all fours and he up on high And he left me up there in the sky over twice and I come down to the earth And I lit into the day of his birth
Now I know ponies that I cannot ride There's some of them living, they haven't all But bet my money there's no man alive Who can stay with old Strawberry he makes his high dive