[1] When [6m] I's in old Fort Worth in eighteen and eighty [1] three
Saw a Mexican [6m] cowboy come ridin' up to [1] me
Sayin' how are you young [6m] fellow now would you like to [1] go
And to [6m] spend another [1] summer in the hills of Mexico

Well I had no employment back to him I did say
Iit's according to your wages according to your pay
I will pay to you good wages and often do you know
If you'll spend another season in the hills of Mexico

Now with all his 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
'Til we crossed the old east river to the hills of Mexico

It was there our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun
Was a lightnin' 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 did rob us in the 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
Goin' back to friends and loved ones and I'll tell them not to go
To that godforsaken country in those hills of Mexico