I was hanging town, just spending my time Being out of a job and not a dime A walks 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 one, I claim 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, here's one pony never been rode And the man gets on him is bound to get thrown I got all up and I asked 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 isn't living that I couldn't fan" He says, "Get your saddle, I'll you the chance" So we hopped in his buckboard and to his ranch
Out in the corral, standing alone Is an old Cavallo, a strawberry Little pin that touch at the tip A big 44 brand his left hip
He was spavined all round and he had pigeon Little pig and a big Roman nose U-necked and old, with a long jaw You could tell at a glance, he's a outlaw
Well, I buckle on my spurs and I'm feeling fine I pull down my hat and I pick up my Throw my loop on him and well, I then he gets rode, I'll sure earn my ten
I get the blinds on him with a fight Next comes the saddle and I him up tight I step on him and raise up the blinds "Get out of the way, boys, bound to unwind"
Well, I threw him his head and say he unwound He seemed to quit living down on the ground up in the east and come down in the west I'm sitting up on him and doing my
He sure was a frog-walker, he heaved a big He only lacked for to be on the fly Turned his old belly up to the sun He was a sun fishing son of a gun
He's about the worst bucker seen on the range He could turn on a nickel and give you some I lost both my 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 me a-spinning up there in the sky Turned over twice and I come down to the And I lit cussing the day of his birth
Now I know there's ponies that I cannot There's some of them living, they all died But I'll bet my money there's no man Who can stay with old Strawberry when he his high dive