When I's in old Fort Worth in eighteen and eighty-three Saw a Mexican cowboy come ridin' up to me Sayin' how are you, young fellow, how would you like to go And spend another summer in the hills of Mexico?
Well, I had no appointment back to him I did say It's accordin' to your wages, accordin' to your pay I will pay to you good wages and often, too, you know If you'll spend another season in the hills of Mexico
Now with all this flatterin' talkin' he signed up quite a train Some ten or twelve in number, some able bodied men And our trip it was pleasant as we hit the western road Till we crossed the old Peace River to those hills of Mexico
It was there our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun Was a lightening storm that hit us and made the cattle run And we all got full of stickers from the cactus that did grow And the outlaws there to rob us in those hills of Mexico
Well, they sent along that old steamboat and back to home did go How those bells started ringing, the whistles they did blow Going back to friends and loves ones and I'll tell them not to go To that God-forsaken country in those hills of Mexico.