Don Edwards - When the Works All Done This Fall lyrics

A jolly group of cowboys discuss their plans at ease Said one I'll tell you something, boys, if you will listen, please I am an old cow puncher and here I'm dressed in rags I used to be a wild one and I'd take on great big jags Oh I have a home, boys, and a good one you all know Although I have not seen it since very long ago But I am going home, boys, once more to see them all I'm going back to Dixie when the work's all done this fall After the roundup's over, after the shipping's done I'm going straight back home, boys, 'fore all my money's gone My mother's dear heart is breaking, breaking for me that's all But with God's help I'll see her when the work's all done this fall That very night this cowboy went out to stand his guard The night was dark and cloudy and was storming very hard The cattle they got frightened and rushed in wild stampede The cowboy tried to head them while riding at full speed While riding in the darkness so loudly he did shout He tried his best to check them and to turn the herd about His saddle horse did stumble and on him he did fall He'll not see his mother when the work's all done this fall They picked him up so gently and laid him on a bed The boy he was so mangled that we all though him dead He opened up his blue eyes and looking all around He motioned to his comrades to sit near on the ground Now send my mother my wages, the wages that I've earned For I am so afraid, boys, the last steer I have turned I'm going to a new range, I hear my Master's call And I'll not see my mother when the work's all done this fall Now Bill you take my saddle and Bob you take my bed And Jim you take my pistol after I am dead Then think of me kindly when you look upon them all For I'll not see my mother when the work's all done this fall Now Charlie was buried at sunrise, no tombstone for his head There was nothing but a little board and this is what it said "Charlie died at daybreak, he died from a fall And he'll not see his mother when the work's all done this fall"