Colter Wall – When The Works All Done This Fall (Guitar)

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A group of jolly cowboys

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discussing plans at ease

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One I’ll tell you, something boys

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If you will listen, please

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I am an old cow-puncher

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And here I’m dressed in rags

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Used to be a tough one

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And I went on great big jags

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But I’ve got a home boys

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A good one that you all know

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Though I haven’t seen it

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Since long, long ago

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I’m a-going to Alberta

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Once more to see them all

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Going to see my mother

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When the work’s all done this fall

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That very night this cowboy

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Went out to stand his guard

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The night was dark and dreary

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And storming very hard

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The cattle they got frightened

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And rushed in a wild stampede

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The cowboy tried to head them out

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Riding at full speed

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While a-riding in the darkness

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So loudly did he shout

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Trying his best to head them

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And turn the herd about

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His saddle-horse did stumble

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And on him, it did fall

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The boy won’t see his mother

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When the works all done this fall

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The body was so mangled

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Boys all thought him dead

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They picked him up so gently

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And laid him on a bed

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He opened wide his blue eyes

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And looking all around

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Motioned with his comrades

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To sit with him on the ground

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“Boys send my mother my wages

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My wages I have earned

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For I am afraid, boys

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The last steer I have turned

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Going to the new range

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I hear my master’s call

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I won’t see my mother

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When the work’s all done this fall

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Give Sully Bill my six-gun, Jake can have my bed

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Pat can have my saddle after I get dead

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Boys think of me kindly

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When you look upon them all

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I won’t see my mother

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When the work’s all done this fall

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Poor Charlie was buried at sunrise

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No tombstone at his head

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Nothin but a little board

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And this is what it said:

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“‘Charlie died at daybreak

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He died from a fall

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The boy won’t see his mother

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When the work’s all done this fall