Dreary Black Hills

X:4371
T:Dreary Black Hills
S:Digital Tradition, drearblk
N:This version collected in Vermont. See VTBOYS
B:From Lomax, Cowboy Songs
Z:dt:drearblk
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
W:Kind friends, you must pity my horrible tale,
W:An object of pity, l'm looking quite stale,
W:I gave up my trade selling Wright's Patent Pills
W:To go hunting gold in the dreary Black Hills.
W:
W:  Don't go away, stay at home if you can,
W:  Stay away from that city, they call it Cheyenne,
W:  For big Wallipee or Comanche Bill
W:  They will lift up your hair on the dreary Black Hills
W:
W:The roundhouse at Cheyenne is filled every night
W:With loafers and bummers of most every plight;
W:On their backs is no clothes, in their pockets no bills,
W:Each day they keep starting for the dreary Black Hills.
W:
W:I got to Cheyenne, no gold could I find,
W:I thought of the lunch route l'd left far behind;
W:Through rain, hail, and snow, froze plumb to the gills,
W:They call me the orphan of the dreary Black Hills.
W:
W:Oh, I wish the man who started this sell
W:Was a captive, and Crazy Horse had him in hell.
W:There's no use in groaning or swearing like pitch,
W:But the man who would stay here is a son of a bitch.
W:
W:Kind friend to conclude my advice I'll unfold
W:Don't go to the Black Hills a hunter for gold
W:Railroad speculators their pockets you'll fill
W:By taking a trip to the dreary Black Hills
W:
W:  Don't go away, stay at home if you can,
W:  Stay away from that city, they call it Cheyenne,
W:  For old Sitting Bull or Comanche Bill
W:  They will take off your scalp on the dreary Black Hills.
K:Bb
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d2 c2 B2| D2 E2 F2 |A3G F2-|F2 B,2 E2|\
G3GF2|A2 B2 c2-|cG A2 B2-|B2 F2 B2|
d3-c B2-|B2D2F2|A3G F2-|F2 B,B, E2|\
G3G F2-|F2 D2 C2|D2 =E2 F2-|F2 F2 F2 |
d3c B2|D3E F2-|A2 G2 F2-|F2 B,B, E2|\
G3G F2|A2 B2 c2|G2 A2 B2-|B4||

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• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/home.quicknet.nl/england/1643
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/kirby98.fsnet.co.uk/dr/Dreary_Black_Hills_1/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/03428
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melodeon.net/melnets_big_abc_file/03428
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/terra.es/personal8/niltoni/d/0696

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