Lyrics
(Folk song)
1. I made up my mind in the early morn
To leave the home where I was born
To leave my native home for awhile
And travel west for many a mile.
2. ‘Twas in the year of eighty three
That A.J. Stinson hired me.
He said, “Young man, I want you to go
And follow my herd to Mexico.”
3. ‘Twas in the springtime of the year
I volunteered to drive the steers.
I’ll tell you, boys, ’twas a long hard go
As the trail rolled on into Mexico.
See also
- Country: Southwestern states (U.S.)
- Subjects: spring / cowboy
- Harmony: chords I V
- Meter: 4
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
- Sources: Singing in Harmony,Ginn and Company, 1957 / The American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Harcout Brace and Company, 1927
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
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