Zebra Dun - Cisco Houston

We were camped on the bend

At the head of the Cimmarron

When along come a stranger

And he stopped to argue some

Well he looked so very foolish

We began to look around

We thought he was a greenhorn

Just escaped from town

He said he'd lost his job

Upon the Sante Fe

And was going cross the prairie

To strike the 7D

He didn't say how come it

Some trouble with the boss

And asked if he could borrow

A fat saddle horse

This tickled all the boys to death

They laughed right up their sleeves

Oh we will lend you a fine horse

As fresh as fat as you please

Then Shorty grabbed the lariat

And he roped the Zebra Dun

And he gave him to the stranger

And waited for the fun

Now old Dunny was an outlaw

He had grown so very wild

Well he could paw the moon down

Boys he could jump a mile

Old Dunny stood right still

As if he didn't know

Until he was saddle

And a ready for the go

When the stranger hit the saddle

Well old Dunny quit the earth

He traveled right straight upwards

For all that he was worth

A bucking and a squealing

And a having wall eyed fits

His hind feet perpendicular

His front feet in the bits

We could see the tops of the mountains

Under Dunny's every jump

The stranger he was growed there

Like the camel's hump

The stranger sat upon him

And he curled his black mustache

Just like a summer boarder

Who was waiting for his hash

Well he thumped him in the shoulders

And he spurred him when he whirled

He hollered to the punchers

"I'm the wolf of the world "

And when he had dismounted

Once more upon the ground

We knew he was a thoroughbred

And not a gent from town

Now the boss who was a standing around

A watching of the show

He walked up to the stranger

And he said he needn't go

If you can handle a lariat

Like you rode the Zebra Dun

You're the man that I've been looking

For since the year of one

Well there's one thing and a sure thing

I've learned since I've been born

That every educated feller

Ain't a plumb greenhorn