ID - Idaho

Way Out in Idaho - Rosalie Sorrels

I was walking around in Denver
One luckless rainy day
When Kilpatrick's mancatcher
Came up to me an’ did say
I'll lay you down five dollars
Quickly as I can
If you'll hurry up and catch the train
She's starting from Cheyenne
Way out in Idaho
Way out in Idaho
A-workin' on the narrow gauge
Way out in Idaho

Well he laid me down five dollars
Like many another man
And I hurried to the depot
As happy as a clam
When I got to Pocatello
My troubles begin to grow
I was waitin' in the sagebrush
The rain, the wind, the snow
Way out in Idaho
Way out in Idaho
A-workin' on the narrow gauge
Way out in Idaho

When I got to American Falls
It was there I met Fat Jack
He kept a little hotel tent
Along beside the track
Now says he, you are a stranger
Perhaps your funds are low
Well yonder stands me hotel tent
The best in Idaho
Way out in Idaho
Way out in Idaho
A-workin' on the narrow gauge
Way out in Idaho

Well he put me to work next morning
With a cranky cuss called Bill
They gave me a ten pound hammer
To strike upon the drill
They said if I didn't like it
I could take my shirts and go
And they'd keep my blankets for my board
Way out in Idaho
Way out in Idaho
Way out in Idaho
A-workin' on the narrow gauge
Way out in Idaho

Well it filled my heart with pity
As I walked along the tracks
To see so many old bundlers
With their packs upon their backs
They said the work was heavy
The grub they could not go
Around Kilpatrick's dirty tables
Way out in Idaho
Way out in Idaho
Way out in Idaho
A-workin' on the narrow gauge
Way out in Idaho

Well, now I'm well and working
Down in the harvest camps
And there I will continue
Till I make a few more stamps
I'll go back to New Mexico
Marry a girl I know
And we'll buy us a horse and buggy
And go back to Idaho