Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song When the Work's All Done This Fall, artist - Michael Martin Murphey. Album song Cowboy Songs, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 27.01.2008
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
When the Work's All Done This Fall |
A group of jolly cowboys, discussing plans at ease |
Says one, I’ll tell you something, boys, if you will listen, please |
I am an old cow-puncher, you see me dressed in rags |
I used to be a good one boys, and went on great big jags |
I have got a home boys, a good one you all know |
Although I haven’t seen it since very long ago |
I’m headed back to Dixie once more to see them all |
I’m going to see my mother when the work’s all done this fall |
When I left my home, boys, my mother for me cried |
She begged me not to go, boys, for me she would have died |
My mother’s heart is aching, breaking for me, that’s all |
With God’s help I’ll see her when the work’s all done this fall |
That very night this cowboy went out to stand his guard |
The night was dark and cloudy and storming very hard |
The cattle, they got frightened and rushed in wild stampede |
The cowboy tried to head them while riding at full speed |
Riding in the darkness, so loudly he did shout |
Trying hard to head them and turn the herd about |
His saddle horse did stumble and on him it did fall |
He’ll not see his mother when the work’s all done this fall |
Send my mother my wages, boys, the wages I have earned |
I am so afraid, boys, the last steer I have turned |
I’m headed for a new range, I hear my Master call |
I’ll not see my mother when the work’s all done this fall |
Fred, you take my saddle, George, you take my bed |
Bill, you take my pistol after I am dead |
Then think of me kindly when you look upon them all |
I’ll not see my mother when the work’s all done this fall |
Charlie was buried at sunrise, no tombstone for his head |
Nothing but a little board, and this is what it said |
Charlie died at daybreak, he died from a fall |
He’ll not see his mother when the work’s all done this fall |