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Thread #45650   Message #676274
Posted By: Steve in Idaho
25-Mar-02 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: When The Work's All Done This Fall^^^
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When The Works All Done This Fall^^^
I got this song from my Dad. He learned it in Jordan Valley, Oregon in the late 30s. I don't know who he cowboyed for over there but most of the hands knew the song. I also heard an old timer up on the South Fork of the Salmon River sing it when I was working for the Flying W in Big Creek, Idaho back in 1974-5. The words from both of them are pretty close to what you all have - the gear was as follows from the two sources I got it from:

Now Bill you take my saddle,
And George you take my bed,
Jack you take my pistol after I am dead.


Steve