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THE BUTTON WILLOW TREE The puncher being cold, he went up to bed. He asked for a candle to light his way to bed. She showed him up to bed like a good girl should. He said, "Young lady, will you go to bed, too?" cho: It's home to your home, wherever you may be, It's home to your home, to your own country, Where the oak and the ash and the button willow tree And the lark sings gaily in his own country. Early in the morning the puncher arose. He filled her apron with silver and with gold. "With silver in your pocket and gold in your purse, If you get into trouble you can hire you a nurse." "Oh, if it's a girl, pat her curly head And remember the night when with me you went to bed Oh, if it's a girl, bounce her on your knee And tell her of her daddy who is far across the sea. "If it's a boy, call him Willie Lee, And when he's twenty-one you can send him o'er to me. With his boots and his chaps and his Gallup saddle new I'll make him punch cows like his daddy used to do. Source: The Hell Bound-Train: A Cowboy Songbook (Glenn Ohrlin, 1989) @cowboy @tree DT #319 Laws K43 filename[ BELLBTT2 TUNE FILE: ROSMRYLN CLICK TO PLAY JRO Feb07  8note Sheet |
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