[ti:I'm Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows]
[ar:Alan Lomax]
[al:Old Country Songs from Down On the Farm, Vol. 1]
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[00:00.00]I'm Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows - Alan Lomax/Avon Cities Skiffle Group/Fannie Davis/Louis Metcalf
[00:00.82]I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows
[00:03.78]Until I get too old
[00:07.84]It's well I work for wages boys
[00:10.52]And get my pay in gold
[00:14.14]My bosses they all like me well
[00:16.46]They say I'm hard to beat
[00:19.20]Because I give 'em the bum stand off
[00:21.43]They know I've got the cheek
[00:24.24]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[00:29.06]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[00:35.78]Now I'm a Texas cowboy
[00:39.19]Just off the stormy plains
[00:42.67]My trade is girtin' saddles
[00:45.05]And pullin' bridle reins
[00:48.70]Oh I can tip the lasso
[00:50.77]It is with graceful ease
[00:52.85]I can rope a streak of lightnin'
[00:56.01]And ride 'er where I please
[00:59.47]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[01:04.54]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[01:11.01]Now if I had me a little stake
[01:13.15]I soon would married be
[01:15.41]But another week and I must go
[01:17.67]The boss said so today
[01:20.95]My girl must cheer up courage
[01:23.11]And choose some other one
[01:26.16]For I'm bound to follow the Lone Star Trail
[01:28.76]Until my race is won
[01:31.61]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[01:36.03]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[01:42.20]It's when we're on the trail
[01:43.92]Where the dust and the billows fly
[01:46.50]It's fifty miles from water
[01:48.55]And the grass is scorchin' dry
[01:53.15]The boss gets mad and ringy
[01:55.23]As you can plainly see
[01:57.25]And I want to leave the trail my boys
[01:59.46]And an honest farmer be
[02:02.02]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[02:05.13]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[02:09.12]And when we get them bedded
[02:10.88]Boys
[02:11.25]We think it's for the night
[02:13.37]Some horse will shake his saddle
[02:15.30]And give that herd a fright
[02:19.75]They'll rise up to their feet my boys
[02:21.84]And madly dash away
[02:23.60]Then it's movin' time
[02:25.12]To the lead my boys
[02:26.16]You'll hear some cowboy say
[02:28.42]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[02:32.75]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[02:38.69]And when we get them rounded up
[02:40.59]And quietened down again
[02:42.87]A dark cloud will rise in the west
[02:44.91]And fire will play on their horns
[02:47.97]The boss will say
[02:48.97]Stay with 'em boys
[02:49.99]Your pay will be in gold
[02:52.09]I'm bound to follow the longhorn steer
[02:54.20]Until I get too old
[02:56.63]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[03:00.73]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[03:07.79]When I get in Kansas
[03:09.40]I had a pleasant dream
[03:12.55]I dreamt I's down on the Trinity
[03:14.49]Down by that pleasant stream
[03:17.68]My true love right beside me
[03:19.68]She'd come to go my bail
[03:22.58]But I woke up broken hearted
[03:24.34]With a yearling by the tail
[03:27.02]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[03:30.23]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[03:32.23]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay
[03:35.88]Ki-yi-yippee yippee-yay