CHORUS:
   Lay down, little doggies, lay down
   We've both got to sleep on the cold, cold ground
   The winds blowin' colder and the sun's goin' down
   Lay down, little doggies, lay down
  
   We hit this old beef trail just two months ago
   We blistered in the sun and we froze in the snow
   In ten days we're comin to a packing housetown
   So lay yourselves down, little doggies, lay down
  
   CHORUS
  
   That bad hold of water we drunk and got sick
   Curled up out hair, tied our tails back in kinks
   We got lost in a blind canyon, tippy-toein' around
   So lay yourselves down, little doggies, lay down
  
   Here now we come to the end of our trail
   Your hair, hide and carcass to the stockyards I sell
   I'll see you in a tin can when you get shipped around
   So lay yourselves down, little doggies, lay down
  
   CHORUS