I was hanging 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 rider, from the looks of your clothes"
"Well, you figured me right and I'm a good one, I Would you happen to have any to tame?" He says, "I've got one and a one to buck At throwing top riders, had lots of luck"
He says this, here's one pony never been rode And the man that on him is bound to get thrown I got all heated up and I asked he'd pay To ride this old nag for a couple of
Well, he me ten and I say, "I'm your man For the bronc isn't living 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 corral, standing alone Is an old Cavallo, a Roan Little pin ears that at the tip A big 44 upon his left hip
He was all round and he had pigeon toes Little pig eyes and a big Roman U-necked and old, with a long jaw You could tell at a glance, a regular outlaw
Well, I buckle on my spurs and I'm sure fine I pull down my hat and I pick up my my loop on him and well, I know then Before he rode, I'll sure earn my ten
I get the blinds on him with a terrible Next comes the saddle and I him up tight Then I step on him and 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 quit living here on the ground Went up in the and come down in the west I'm sitting up on him and my best
He sure was a frog-walker, he a big sigh 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 bucker I've seen on the range He could turn on a nickel and give you change I both my stirrups and also my hat I'm reaching for and blind as a bat
He come on all fours and he went up on high And he left me up there in the sky Turned over twice and I down to the earth And I lit into the day of his birth
Now I know there's ponies that I cannot There's some of them living, haven't all died But bet my money there's no man alive Who can stay with old when he makes his high dive