Songs Of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp

Complete Text & Lyrics by John A Lomax

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JUST A-RIDINM
O H, for me a horse and saddle
Every day without a change;
With the desert sun a-blazin'
On a hundred miles o1 range,
Just a-ridin', just a-ridin',
Desert ripplin' in the sun,
- Mountains blue along the skyline,—
I don't envy anyone.
When my feet are in the-stirrups
And my horse is on the bust;
When his hoofs are flashin' lightnin,
From a golden cloud o' dust;
And the bawlin' of the cattle
Is a-comin' down the wind,—
Oh, a finer life than ridin'
Would be mighty hard to find,
Just a-ridin1, just a-ridin',
Splittin' long cracks in the air,
Stirrin1 up a baby cyclone,
Rootin' up the prickly pear.
I don't need no art exhibits
When the sunset does his best,
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