Ten thousand cattle, gone astray
Quit my range and wandered away
And the sons of gun, I'm here to say
Left me dead, dead broke today

In gambling hell's delaying
Ten thousand cattle straying still

Now my gal she's gone away
Left my shed and traveled away
With a son of a gun from mountain away
She left me a lone, a lone man today

In gambling hell's delaying
Ten thousand cattle straying still

In gambling hell's delaying
Ten thousand cattle straying still
In gambling hell's delaying
Ten thousand cattle straying still