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"The Buffalo Skinners" ("The Hills of Mexico") is a traditional American folk song. It tells the story of an 1873 buffalo hunt on the southern plains.〔Carr, ''Prairie Nights to Neon Lights'', p. 10: " "The Buffalo Skinners" tells of a buffalo hunting trip from Jacksboro to West Texas in 1873."〕 According to Fannie Eckstorm, 1873 is correct, as the year that professional buffalo hunters from Dodge City first entered the northern part of the Texas panhandle.〔Liner notes ''The Continuing Tradition,Volume 1.'' Folk-Legacy 1981〕 It is thought to be based on the song Canaday-I-O.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ciscohouston.com/lyrics/buffalo_skinners.shtml )〕 According to extensive research carried out by Jürgen Kloss in 2010-2012, this song is one of the many variants of John B Freeman's "The Buffalo Song".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 first = Jürgen ) Retrieved on 4 August 2014.〕 =="The Buffalo Skinners"== "The Buffalo Skinners" is an American folk song which first appeared in John Lomax's ''Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads'' in 1918. The song tells of crew of men hired in Jacksboro, Texas to go buffalo hunting north of the Pease River : :''It happened in Jacksboro in the spring of seventy-three,'' :''A man by the name of Crego came stepping up to me,'' :''Saying, "How do you do, young fellow, and how would you like to go'' :''And spend one summer pleasantly on the range of the buffalo?"''〔Lomax, ''Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads'', p. 158.〕 The song goes through many verses telling a humorous tale of the trials and tribulations they find on the hunt. The next to the last verse tells of how the trip ended: :''The season being near over, old Crego he did say'' :''The crowd had been extravagant, was in debt to him that day,—'' :''We coaxed him and we begged him and still it was no go,—'' :''We left old Crego's bones to bleach on the range of the buffalo.''〔Lomax, ''Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads'', p. 160.〕 The last verse ends with: :''Go home to our wives and sweethearts, tell others not to go,'' :''For God's forsaken the buffalo range and the damned old buffalo.''〔Lomax, ''Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads'', p. 161.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「On the Trail of the Buffalo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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