Paroles

[isabelle]

Je cherche les paroles de la chanson "plaint of the buffalo". Quelqu'un c'est y qu'aurait ça? Ou qui peut me dire où je peux trouver.

[Jean-Pierre]

Comme d'hab, il y a qu'à demander:

Buffalo Skinners
Traditional, arranged by Arlo Guthrie

Come all you old time cowboys
And listen to my song
Please do not grow weary
I'll not detain you long
Concerning some wild cowboys
Who did agree to go
And spend the summer pleasant
On the range of the buffalo.

Well I found myself in Griffin
In eighteen eighty-three
When a man by the name of Creagho
Come a'walkin' up to me
Sayin "How do you do young fella
And how'd you like to go
And spend the summer pleasant
On the range of the buffalo".

Well me being out of work right then
To that drover I did say
"My goin' out on the buffalo range
Depends upon the pay
But if you pay good wages,
Transportation to and fro
I think I might go with you
On the range of the Buffalo".

Well yes I 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 and run away
You'll starve to death out on the trail
And you'll also lose your pay

Well with all the flatterin' talkin'
He signed up quite a train
Some ten or twelve in number
Of able bodied men
And our trip it was a pleasant one
Through all New Mexico
Until we crossed Pease River
On the range of the buffalo

It was there our pleasures ended
And our troubles all begun
A lightnin' storm come up on us
And made the cattle run
We got full of the stickers
On the cactus that did grow
And the outlaws waited to pick us off
In the hills of Mexico

Well the working season ended
But the drover would not pay
He said "You spent your money boys
You're all in debt to me".
But the cowboys never put much stock
In a thing like a bankrupt law
So we left the bastard's bones to bleach
On the range of the buffalo.

[grassmatinee]

Salut Isa; je ne vois pas de "plaint" dans "Buffalo Skinners".
Si ce n'es pas ce que tu cherches, dis-nous en plus, car une recherche avec ces termes ne donne rien... Tu n'as pas le moindre bout de la chanson?
Genre "Oh the wind blows cold on the trail of the buffalo..." comme dirait l'ami Peter!
8)

[Jean-Pierre]

Dans certaines version, les derniers vers sont :

But the cowboys never had heard
Such a thing as a bankrupt law
So we left that drover's bones to bleach
On the plains of the buffalo

[grassmatinee]

Damned! Que mes os blanchissent au soleil!
Mais... toujours pas de "plaint"?
Ce que j'en dis, moi...
8)

[GeoBar]

Y a même pas le mot "plaint" dans mon dico ! ( Word Reference )

Il renvoie tout de suite au verbe "se plaindre", en français puis à "complaint" (english)

... et pas de "Complaint of the buffalo", but a "Complaint of the seal in Alaska" mais ça n'vaut pas la peine ...

[isabelle]

Scusa me!! Il s'agit de plains of the buffalo.
Jean Pierre. Tu avais tout compris.
C'est exactement cette chanson que je cherchais.
Merci à vous.

[Jean-Pierre]

Jean Pierre. Tu avais tout compris.

Pour une fois!...

[anne-marie]

Ho génial !!! Bravo Isa. Merci JP !

Grassmat, il y a une version de cette chanson dans le CD de Front Range "Back To Red River" 1993.

AnnMa

[grassmatinee]

Merci Anne-Marie, mais sais-tu que je ne l'ai point!
Isa, la prochaine fois, je porte "plaint"...
8)