way high up in the sierry peaks where the yellow jack pines grow tall old buster jiggs and sandy bob had a round up camp last fall well they took along their running irons maybe a dog or two and they lowed thy d brand every long eared calf that came within their view now every little long eared dogie that didn t push up by day got his long ears whittled and his old hide scorched in a most artistic way one fine day says buster jiggs as he throws his seago down i m tired of cowpiography and i think i m a goin into town well they saddled up and they hit a lope for it warn t no sight of a ride and them was the days that a good cow punch could oil up his insides well they started in at kentucky bar at the head of whisky row and they wound her up at the depot house about forty drinks below well they sets em up and they turns around and they started in the other way and to tell the god forsaken truth them boys got drunk that day they was on their way goin back to camp a packin that awful load when who should they meet but the devil himself come a traipsin down the road he says you ornery cowboy skunks you better go hunt for your holes cause i ve come up from hell s rim rock just to gather in your souls the devil be damned says buster jiggs us boys is a little bit tight but you don t go gatherin no cowboys souls without one helluva fight now buster jiggs could ride like hell and throw a lasso too so he threw it over the devil s horns and he took his dallies true now sandy bob was a reata man with his gut line coiled up neat but he shook her out and he builds a loop and he roped the devils hind feet well they stretches him out and they tails him down while the running irons were getting hot and they cropped and swallow forked his ears and they branded him up a lot well they trimmed his horns way down to his head tied ten knots in his tail for a joke then they went off and left him there tied up to a little pin oak now when you re high in the sierry peaks and you hear one hell of a wail well you know it s just the devil himself yellin bout them knots in his tail