Kingston Trio Speckled Roan Lyrics

Speckled Roan Lyrics

Jane Bowers



I used to ride a little old speckled roan. I told him lots of things I wouldn't
have told at home.

I said to the speckled roan, said I, "I'm so lonesome I could die, but I
ain't gonna stay lonesome very long."



I used to ride a little ole yellow dun. Mending fences, rode him in the rain
and sun.

I said to the yellow dun, said I, "I'm gonna be rich or know the reason
why. Gonna take my money to town and find the fun."



And then I bought me a big old ropin' gray. Roped for money and I made it ev'ry
day.

But I said to the ropin' gray, said I, "I sure do miss that prairie
sky," and he let out laughin' and he surely knowed the way.



I brought my money home and I brought it home to stay. Couldn't have stayed in
town, not another day.

I'm gonna live out under a prairie sky. Gonna live out there 'till the day I
die with the roan and the dun and the big old ropin' gray.