[ti:I'm Bound To Follow The Longhorn Cows]
[ar:Alan Lomax]
[al:Texas Folk Songs (Digitally Remastered)]
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[00:00.00]I'm Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows - Alan Lomax
[00:00.53]I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows
[00:03.53]Until I get too old 
[00:06.33]
[00:07.45]It's well I work for wages  boys 
[00:10.16]And get my pay in gold 
[00:12.77]
[00:13.46]My bosses they all like me well;
[00:16.35]They say I'm hard to beat 
[00:18.93]Because I give 'em the bum stand-off 
[00:21.20]They know I've got the cheek 
[00:23.13]
[00:23.82]Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay  Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay
[00:32.54]
[00:35.63]Now I'm a Texas cowboy  just off the stormy plains 
[00:41.32]
[00:42.53]My trade is girtin' saddles and pullin' bridle reins 
[00:47.27]
[00:48.29]Oh  I can tip the lasso; it is with graceful ease 
[00:52.96]I can rope a streak of lightnin'
[00:56.13]And ride 'er where I please 
[00:58.62]
[00:59.27]Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay  Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay
[01:07.95]
[01:10.77]Now if I had me a little stake 
[01:12.33]I soon would married be 
[01:15.18]But another week and I must go;
[01:17.42]The boss said so today 
[01:20.07]
[01:20.76]My girl must cheer up courage
[01:22.12]
[01:22.85]And choose some other one 
[01:25.80]For I'm bound to follow the Lone Star Trail
[01:28.63]Until my race is won 
[01:31.39]Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay  Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay
[01:39.07]
[01:42.04]It's when we're on the trail
[01:43.63]Where the dust and the billows fly 
[01:46.29]It's fifty miles from water
[01:48.34]And the grass is scorchin' dry;
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[01:52.96]The boss gets mad and ringy
[01:55.34]As you can plainly see
[01:57.31]And I want to leave the trail  my boys 
[01:59.25]And an honest farmer be 
[02:01.45]Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay  Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay
[02:08.32]
[02:09.02]And when we get them bedded  boys 
[02:11.01]We think it's for the night 
[02:13.01]Some horse will shake his saddle
[02:15.02]And give that herd a fright 
[02:17.66]
[02:19.66]They'll rise up to their feet  my boys 
[02:21.58]And madly dash away 
[02:23.69]Then it's movin' time;
[02:24.51]"To the lead  my boys "
[02:25.97]You'll hear some cowboy say 
[02:28.25]Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay  Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay
[02:37.18]
[02:38.57]And when we get them rounded up
[02:40.45]And quietened down again 
[02:43.04]A dark cloud will rise in the west 
[02:44.85]And fire will play on their horns 
[02:47.19]
[02:47.78]The boss will say 
[02:48.72]"Stay with 'em  boys; your pay will be in gold "
[02:52.19]I'm bound to follow the longhorn steer
[02:54.07]Until I get too old 
[02:56.51]Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay  Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay
[03:03.74]
[03:07.47]When I get in Kansas  I had a pleasant dream 
[03:11.41]
[03:12.47]I dreamt I's down on the Trinity 
[03:14.58]Down by that pleasant stream 
[03:16.96]
[03:17.58]My true love right beside me 
[03:19.27]She'd come to go my bail 
[03:21.43]
[03:22.55]But I woke up broken-hearted
[03:24.53]With a yearling by the tail 
[03:26.97]Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay  Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay
[03:31.88]Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay  Ki-yi-yippee  yippee-yay