Six Bucks A Day Lyrics - Chris Ledoux

I've been ramblin' out Montana way 

Tryin' to live on a cow punchers pay 

Been changin' them dams in the new summer hay 

Irrigating alfalfa for six bucks a day 

I'll tell you my story I'd be on my way 

But the savings are slow to come on six bucks a day 

Out here in the fields while the water runs down 

With the sun high above me and the sky all around 

I'm dreamin' my dreams of the Canada line 

And the places I'd go if the money was mine 

I'll tell you my story... 

Come Saturday night well you draw out some pay 

Then you go into town just to throw it away 

And when the end of the month comes rolling your way 

Well you ain't got much left on six bucks a day 

I'll tell you my story... 

Now if I drew out my time and I paid off my debts 

I couldn't get to Great Falls on what I have left 

But I've got me no choice when them diesel horns blow 

Come a wind from the highway I got to pack up and go 

Yeah money or none at all they can't hold me this way 

For my blankets are rolled and tied and I'm leavin' today