Kind friends listen hear to my pitiful tales.
I'm an object of pity and I'm looking quite stale.
I gave up my job selling Wright's Patent Pills
To prospect for gold in these Dreary Black Hills.
So,don't go away,stay at home,if you can;
Stay away from that city,they call it Cheyenne,
For old Sitting Bull or Chief Walipe Bill
They will lift off your hair on them Dreary Black Hills.
As I was out to riding one morning in may,
As I was out to riding one morning fore days,
I met General Custer and Buffalo Bill;
They claim they found the gold in them dreary black hills.
So,don't go away,stay at home if you can;
Stay away from that city,they call it Cheyenne,
For old Sitting Bull or Chief Walipe Bill
They will lift off your hair on them Dreary Black Hills.
Well,I got to Cheyenne,but no gold did I find.
I thought of the lunch route I'd left behind.
Throuh rain,hail and snow,froze plumb to the gills,
They call me the orphan of the Dreary Back Hills.
So,don't go away,stay at home,if you can;
Stay away from that city,they call it Cheyenne,
For old Sitting Bull and Chief Comanche Bill
They're raising pure hell round the town of Cheyenne.
Well,I wish that the feller that started this sell
Was a captive and Crazy Horse had him in hell.
There's no use in grieving or swearing like pitch,
But a man that would stay here's a son of a bitch.
So,don't go away,stay at home,if you can,
Stay away from that city,they call it Cheyenne,
For old Sitting Bull or Chief Walipe Bill
They will lift off your hair on the Dreary Black Hills.
The roundhouse at Cheyenne is filled every night
With loafers and bummers of most every plight.
On their backs is no clothes,in their pockets no bills,
Each day they keep starting for the Dreary Black Hills.
So,don't go away,stay at home,if you can,
Stay away from that city,they call it Cheyenne,
For old Sitting Bull or Chief Walipe Bill
They will lift off your hair on the Dreary Black Hills.
No,don't go away,stay at home,if you can;
Stay away from that city,they call it Cheyenne.
I'd druther be home,laying sick in my bed,
Than a target for some of old Sitting bull's lead.