Buffalo Skinners (Traditional)

[allenshepard]

Woody might have wrote some new lyrics but if im correct its a very old you can hear alan lomax do this capella.on a album, called songs of the working people

[BroBearPig]

Dude I dont get how you play this song, my version sounds like complete shit

[Gypsy0Eyes0]

Loved the talking intro, for real sounded like i was listening to one of the legends. Guitar work was fancy to!

[bigstevejames]

Woody Guthrie one chords this song.



[sasacoidebre]

play the fucking song!!! you talk too much..

[Parsa9]

The Buffalo Skinners is a very old song. It was gathered by John A. Lomax and appears in his 1910 book Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads. He recorded a version of it that is on ''Cowboy Songs, Ballads & Cattle Calls From Texas.'' The same record has a much nicer tune for the song called Colley's Run-I-O. Lomax's son John Jr. also sings the song on his Folkways album. Other old versions are by Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, Ed McCurdy, Hermes Nye, and Slim Critchlow. (all on iTunes)

[joeybabydarlin]

i love ramblin jack ... u ramble a fair bit too mate at the beginning eh, ha ha ... but its worth the wait *****

[marcelbizien]

I love your version, and think that it is closer to that of Jack than that of Arlo. I much prefer Jack's. Nice to see a young fellow like you enjoying turn of the century music from last century. Pass the respect and history on!

[joeybabydarlin]

jsnbeat has the best version :)

[bulbheadmyass]

Great version of this song.

[sissy1678]

As you say, lot of versions of this song..but your version is an excellent interpretation - thank you

[dennisrocker]

Thanks for putten' this on. I'm 52 years and do apreciate a good story song like this one.Good man sharing this! Nice guitar too!

[dennisrocker]

Thanks for putten' this on. I'm 52 years and do apreciate a good story song like this one.Good man sharing this! Nice guitar too!

[RideMyBMW]

Good job buddy...BTW, this tune in the PD (Public Domain)?

[BobTGuevara]

Very nice, thanks! I love the song, play it a lot too.

Quiet most sources I found mark it as "Trad. arr. W. Guthrie".

Personally I learned it from Bob Dylan. There's a hometape of him playing it to Woody in 61. And he played it frequently live between 88 and 92.

Here' one (the better) of only two electric version. I couldn't find any video of the accoustic versions:

youtube com/watch?v=2KISTwUy8mg

[hutzguri]

ty for posting this song! very nice! And thanks to Parsa and Bisbonian for their informations about the singers and the song! I heard it years ago and was wondering if I could find it on youtube: here it is!

[Bisbonian]

Nicely done. Ramblin' Jack pretty closely follows Woody Guthrie's version, and style. Sometimes, you sound a lot like Ramblin' Jack. Arlo Githrie's Version is pretty good, too...slightly different lyrics (he mentions the drover's name of Creago, and crosses Pease River, instead of Boggy Creek.) I really like a banjo version by Penny Price, you can find at banjoaddiction dot com.

[Parsa9]

Thanks for a very listenable version of this song. Nice.

Buffalo Skinners is a traditional cowboy song that dates into the 19th century. One of the rare recordings by John Lomax, the famous compiler of cowboy songs, is a version of this song. It appears on the album Cowboy Songs, Ballads & Cattle Calls From Texas. A much nicer version of the tune can be found on the same album performed by L. Parker Temple called Colley's Run-I-O. It's a lumberjack song instead of a cowboys song.