When I was in
old Fort Worth in 1883
Saw a Mexican cow boy
come ridin' up to me
Saying, how are you, young fellow?
Now, would you like to go
And spend another summer
In the hills of Mexico?
Well, I had no employment
Back to him I did say
It's according to your wages,
according to your pay,
I will pay to you good wages,
and off until you know,
if you'll spend another season
in the hills of Mexico.
Now
with all his flatterin' talkin'
He signed up quite a train
Some ten or twelve in number,
some able -bodied men
And our trip, it was pleasant
as we hit the western road
Till we crossed the old Peace River
to those hills of Mexico
It was there our pleasures ended
and our troubles all begun
Was a lightning storm that hit us
and made the cattle run
And we all got full of stickers
from the cactus that did grow
And the outlaws there to rob us
in those hills of Mexico
Well they sent along that old steamboat
and back to home did go
Now those bells started ringing,
the whistles they did blow
Going back to friends and loved ones,
and I'll tell them not to go
To that God -forsaken country
in those hills of Mexico.