Big Chief Buffalo Nickel lyrics

Song information

Artist: Rick Nelson
Album: Country Fever

Lyrics

Way out on the wind-swept desert
Where nature played with no man
A buffalo found his brother
Lying baked on the sun-baked sand
Said my brother what ails you?
A sickness made you this way?
His brother never said
'Cause his brother was dead
He been dead since way last may

Big chief buffalo nickel
Was a mighty man in his day
He never used a sickle
To clear the bushes away
He'd roam around from tent to tent
Eat everything in sight
He loved a squaw, every one he saw
He loved a new one every night

Way out on the wind-swept desert
I heard a big indian noise
I left my tent 'cause I knew what it meant
What I never known before
It was gone when I reached st. pete
My legs were certainly sore
I musta lost 50 pounds on that hot desert ground
And I'd lose that many more

Big chief buffalo nickel
Was a mighty man in his day
He never used a sickle
To clear the bushes away
He'd roam around from tent to tent
Eat everything in sight
He loved a squaw, every one he saw
He loved a new one every night

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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