Well, when I's an old Fort Worth
In eighteen and eighty-three
Come a Mexican cowboy
Steppin' up to me
Sayin', "How do you do young fella
How would you love to go
Come and spend another season with me in Mexico"

"Well, I have no employment"
Back to him I say
"It's according to your wages
According to your pay"
"I will pay to you good wages
Often too, you know
If you'll spend another season with me in Mexico"

Spend my wages on the steamboat
And back to home did go
How the bells they did ring
Whistles they did blow
How the bells they did ring
Whistles thеy did blow
Through the godforsaken forests of thе hills of Mexico