Many rocks the rapid has
lot of billows the sea
More plentiful are my cares
Than cones on a [bad word] Beard moss on a juniper
Gnarls upon a pine bark [bad word] upon a fir
Husks on a grass-top
Boughs on a bad tree

Drag my cares away
Carry off my griefs
For no horse can draw
No iron-shod jerk
Without the shaft-bow shaking off
The cares of this skinny one
The sorrows of this black bird

Many rocks the rapid has
lot of billows the sea
More plentiful are my cares
Than cones on a [bad word] Beard moss on a juniper
Gnarls upon a pine bark [bad word] upon a fir
Husks on a grass-top
Boughs on a bad tree

Drag my cares away
Carry off my griefs
For no horse can draw
No iron-shod jerk
Without the shaft-bow shaking off
The cares of this skinny one
The sorrows of this black bird