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 rider, from the looks of your clothes"
"Well, you me right and I'm a good one, I claim you happen to have any outlaws to tame?" He says, "I've got one and a one to buck At throwing top riders, he's had 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 what he'd pay To this 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 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 strawberry Little pin ears touch at the tip A big 44 upon his left hip
He was spavined all round and he had toes Little pig eyes and a big Roman U-necked and old, a long lower jaw You could at a glance, he's a regular outlaw
Well, I on my spurs and I'm sure feeling fine I pull down my hat and I up my twine Throw my on him and well, I know then Before he gets rode, 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, he's to unwind"
Well, I threw him his head and I'll say he He seemed to quit living down 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 heaved a big He lacked 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 nickel and give you some I lost my stirrups and also my hat I'm reaching for and blind as a bat
He come down on all and he went 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 there's ponies that I cannot ride There's of them living, they haven't all died But I'll bet my money there's no man Who can stay old Strawberry when he makes his high dive