Well the country's all shot to pieces now
The ranches all gone, the old time cowboy's gone
The round-ups are over and the old trail is all pinned with wire
They say is heaven is a free range land
Goodbye, goodbye fare ye well
Barbed wire fence's the Devil's hatband
And barbed wire plankets are down in Hell
Goodbye, goodbye fare ye well
The Devil's hatband
It sow the shroud of the old cattle land
It cut off our freedom, it cut up our horses
Cut up our cows and put a Spanish bid on free enterprise