Bush Cow Milk


Howard Benedict Hayes, to whom Parker dedicates this song, was "a musical genius, a great songwriter and performer, though blind from birth." According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary a bush cow is either a short-horned buffalo of West Africa (Syncerus nanus) or a tapir.

"Bush Cow Milk," by the late Prof. Howard Benedict Hayes, rearranged, played, and sung by Congress-Woman Jackson Parker. Dedicated to the three brothers, William, Frank, and Steve Talbot.

A lovely girl of some degree [?] He bought her satin and he bought her silk: things of quality. She said, "I don't like satin and I don't want silk, but all I want is some bush cow milk. So please go down and milk a bush cow for me." Now that made [?] stand still and he said, "Sweetheart, I will." When the sun shine above start getting hot, lepers are born without any spots when a great big ship stop crossing the sea. Elephants [?] coconut trees. When motor-scooters take flight and say, "Man, I ain't gonna bite." Sweetheart, I'm telling you too: When every grain of sand turn to dust, you find one woman a man can trust, I'll milk a bush cow for you. When every grain of sand turn to dust, you find one woman a that man can trust, I'll milk a bush cow for you. When the clouds of above stop descending to rain and Joseph Jenkins Roberts is president again, yeah, I'll, I'll milk a bush cow for you. When a strain of sand turn to dust, find one man that a woman can trust, I'll milk a bush cow for you.

Now Roberts was Liberia's first president. Tubman is Liberia's eighteenth president. This republic is the oldest independent republic in Africa, and has made more progress in the last decade than in the preceding century.

When every grain of sand turn to dust find one man that a woman can trust then I'll milk, I'll milk a bush cow for you When the clouds of above stop descending to rain and Joseph Jenkins Roberts is president again, I'll milk, I'll milk, I'll milk a bush cow for you. When every grain of sand turn to dust, find one man that a woman can trust, I'll milk a bush cow for you. Well, clouds above stop descending to rain Joseph Jenkins Roberts is president again, I'll milk a bush cow for you. I'll milk a bush cow for you. Says Bill: "It's impossible to milk a bush cow." When every grain of sand turn to dust, find one woman that a man can trust, I'll milk a bush cow for you. When the clouds of above stop descending to rain and Joseph Jenkins Roberts is president again, well, I'll milk a bush cow for you. Impossible.