I was round town, just spending my time Being out of a job and not a dime A fellow up and he says, "I suppose You're a bronc rider, from the looks of clothes"
"Well, you figured me 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 top riders, he's had lots of luck"
He says this, here's one pony that's never rode And the man that gets on him is to get thrown I got all heated up and I asked he'd pay To ride this old nag for a 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 your saddle, give you the chance" So we hopped in his buckboard and to his ranch
Out in the horse corral, standing Is an old Cavallo, a Roan Little pin that touch at the tip A big 44 upon his left hip
He was spavined all round and he had pigeon Little pig eyes and a big Roman U-necked and old, with a lower jaw You tell at a glance, he's a regular outlaw
Well, I buckle on my and I'm sure feeling fine I down my hat and I pick up my twine Throw my loop on him and well, I know Before he gets rode, sure earn my ten
I get the blinds on him a terrible fight comes the saddle and I cinch him up tight Then I step on him and raise up the "Get out of the way, boys, bound to unwind"
Well, I threw him his head and say he unwound He seemed to quit down here on the ground Went up in the east and come down in the I'm sitting up on him and my best
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 bucker I've seen on the range He turn on a nickel and give you some change I lost both my and also my hat I'm for leather and blind as a bat
He come down on all fours and he went up on And he me a-spinning up there in the sky Turned over twice and I come down to the And I lit into cussing the day of his
Now I know there's ponies that I cannot some of them living, they haven't all died But I'll bet my money no man alive Who can stay with old Strawberry when he makes his dive