well there is a man you ll hear about most every place you go and his holdings are in texas and his name is diamond joe he carried all his money in a diamond studded jar and he never was much bothered by the process of the law well i hired out to diamond joe boys i did offer him my hand and he gave me a string of horses so old they could not stand oh i like to starve to death boys he did mistreat me so and i never saved a dollar in the pay of diamond joe now his bread it was corn dodger and his meat i could not chaw and he like to drove me crazy with the waggin of his jaw oh the tellin of his stories i mean to let you know that there never was a rounder that could lie like diamond joe  well i tried three times to quit him boys but he did argue so that i m still punchin cattle in the pay of diamond joe and when i m called up yonder and it comes my time to go i give my blankets to my buddies and my fleas to diamond joe