Twenty Mule Team

pulled out of mojave with a twenty mule team,

ten tons of borax and a muleskinner's dream.

soon i'd be wining and dining i know,

with a cute little filly in the town of reno.



chorus:

so move along big twenty, big twenty move along,

you got the muscle and you got the bone.

move along big twenty, big twenty move along,

you got a master and you got a home.



the apache are restless, there's smoke in the sky;

i'm too old for scalping and i'm too young to die.

soon they'll be around me like ants on a hill,

grooming this muleskinner up for the kill.



chorus:



my mules are tired of running, just fell to the ground,

ten tons of borax pulled big twenty down.

i'm still living so the story can be told,

how i traded that borax for apache gold!



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