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This song, Buffalo Skinners is an old nugget that Micheal found and was the driving force on getting this song going. Hopefully he may know some additional history on it.
Goodwilly's are by hook or crook:
Uncle F. Goodwilly (Micheal Wark)
Gumption Goodwilly (Vic Holman)
Grandpa Curmudgeon Goodwilly (Dadai)
Mojo Goodwilly (Mike Dancy)
We have also ask a few of our friends here at Macjams to sit in.
Cousin Brucey plays bass and has provided the drum tracks as well.
It seems Mojo (Mikey D.) and Cousin Brucey (Neil Porter) got into something of a poker match. Mojo put his drum tracks into the ante and got beat by Cousin Brucey's five aces.
Cousin Satchmo Limpdog, (Tom Bronco) who took time off between gigs with his band "The Flying Dentures" to help us out.
Half brother five times removed. Cantankerous Carmichael, (Scott Carmichael). Part-time saloon honky tonk piano player.
Julio Chupa, (Ian Beardsley) Uncle Flaccid's gardener.
Vocals are by Tom, Micheal & Dadai.
Piano courtesy of Scott Carmichael
Acoustic guitars are Vic and Micheal
Mandolin by Micheal
Ian does a acoustic duet with Micheal
Neil is on bass and provided the drums
Vic is on slide and electric guitar
And a special thanks to Myshkin (Ross) for the logo
Goodwilly's are by hook or crook:
Uncle F. Goodwilly (Micheal Wark)
Gumption Goodwilly (Vic Holman)
Grandpa Curmudgeon Goodwilly (Dadai)
Mojo Goodwilly (Mike Dancy)
We have also ask a few of our friends here at Macjams to sit in.
Cousin Brucey plays bass and has provided the drum tracks as well.
It seems Mojo (Mikey D.) and Cousin Brucey (Neil Porter) got into something of a poker match. Mojo put his drum tracks into the ante and got beat by Cousin Brucey's five aces.
Cousin Satchmo Limpdog, (Tom Bronco) who took time off between gigs with his band "The Flying Dentures" to help us out.
Half brother five times removed. Cantankerous Carmichael, (Scott Carmichael). Part-time saloon honky tonk piano player.
Julio Chupa, (Ian Beardsley) Uncle Flaccid's gardener.
Vocals are by Tom, Micheal & Dadai.
Piano courtesy of Scott Carmichael
Acoustic guitars are Vic and Micheal
Mandolin by Micheal
Ian does a acoustic duet with Micheal
Neil is on bass and provided the drums
Vic is on slide and electric guitar
And a special thanks to Myshkin (Ross) for the logo
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Lyrics
Buffalo Skinners
'Twas in the town of Jacksburo, in the year of '73
That a man by the name of Kreggo come walking up to me.
Saying how you doing young feller and would you like to go.
To spend the summer pleasantly on the range of the buffalo.
Me being out of employment, to Kreggo I did say.
This summer on the buffalo range depends upon the pay.
For if you pay good wages, transportation to and fro'
It's likely I'll go with you to the range of the buffalo
Yes I will pay good wages, and transportation too.
If you'll agree to work for me until the season's through.
But if you do get homesick and you try to run away.
You'll starve to death on the buffalo range, and also lose your pay.
With all this fancy talking he set me up quite a plan.
Some ten or twelve in number, all able bodied men.
Our trip it was a pleasant one as we hit the westward road .
Until we reached Las Cruces in old New Mexico
(instrumentals)
Well then our pleasures ended and our troubles they begun.
When lightning struck the wagon boys and made the buffalo run .
A thousand head a-breathin' fire, stampeding they did go.
And outlaws waiting to pick us off from the hills of Mexico
Well the working season ended but the drover would not pay.
He said 'you boys been extravagant, your all in debt to me.
' But the cowboys never heard such a thing as a bankrupt drover-o .
So they left his bones to bleach in the hills of Mexico.
Across the Rio Grande my boys and homeward we are bound .
No one on this buffalo range will ever more be found .
Go home to your wives and sweethearts, tell others not to go .
To spend the summer pleasantly on the range of the buffalo
'Twas in the town of Jacksburo, in the year of '73.
That a man by the name of Kreggo come walking up to me.
Saying how you doing young feller and would you like to go.
To spend the summer pleasantly on the range of the buffalo.
'Twas in the town of Jacksburo, in the year of '73
That a man by the name of Kreggo come walking up to me.
Saying how you doing young feller and would you like to go.
To spend the summer pleasantly on the range of the buffalo.
Me being out of employment, to Kreggo I did say.
This summer on the buffalo range depends upon the pay.
For if you pay good wages, transportation to and fro'
It's likely I'll go with you to the range of the buffalo
Yes I will pay good wages, and transportation too.
If you'll agree to work for me until the season's through.
But if you do get homesick and you try to run away.
You'll starve to death on the buffalo range, and also lose your pay.
With all this fancy talking he set me up quite a plan.
Some ten or twelve in number, all able bodied men.
Our trip it was a pleasant one as we hit the westward road .
Until we reached Las Cruces in old New Mexico
(instrumentals)
Well then our pleasures ended and our troubles they begun.
When lightning struck the wagon boys and made the buffalo run .
A thousand head a-breathin' fire, stampeding they did go.
And outlaws waiting to pick us off from the hills of Mexico
Well the working season ended but the drover would not pay.
He said 'you boys been extravagant, your all in debt to me.
' But the cowboys never heard such a thing as a bankrupt drover-o .
So they left his bones to bleach in the hills of Mexico.
Across the Rio Grande my boys and homeward we are bound .
No one on this buffalo range will ever more be found .
Go home to your wives and sweethearts, tell others not to go .
To spend the summer pleasantly on the range of the buffalo
'Twas in the town of Jacksburo, in the year of '73.
That a man by the name of Kreggo come walking up to me.
Saying how you doing young feller and would you like to go.
To spend the summer pleasantly on the range of the buffalo.
dolby
- so much going on here! Like some kind of mid-seventies supergroup:-))
I'm presuming from your blurb that this is a traditional song, redone? At times this sounds mid-western country and at times quite Irish. Obvious comaprison is Mark Knopfler circa Sailing to Philadelphia (especially those half dozen notes on the fade out guitar)
The mix of vocals taking on the different characters works really well - there's some lovely contrasts in there. The instrumentation and playing is geat, as is the production.
Great job -
Phil