FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
FC 11 A-03
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Carlos Ashley
Bowie's Bones
Did you come to visit the Mission? Well, stranger, I'll show you around; They've got a museum in there in that room, But they's more things outside they ain't found.
James Bowie, Jim Bowie, Alamo, Lost Bowie Mine, San Saba Mission, Indian mound, skeleton, humor
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
FC 11 A-03
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Carlos Ashley
Said the Hoot Owl to the Hen Hawk
Said the Hoot Owl to the Hen Hawk: "Let's you and me agree | That you will work the dayshift | And leave the night to me.
chickens, barnyard
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
The Cedar-Whack
The North wind howls like a timber wolf; As it snaps at the flappin door; On the duckin shack of the cedar-whack; And his kids on the damp dirt floor.
making a living, wood, survival
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Luck
A lucky boy am I to have; A wife so sweet and comely, While pore old Bill, he's got a wife; Who's mean as hell -- and homely.
married life, marriage, humor
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Aunt Cordie
You never did know Aunt Cordelia? They's a gap missin outa your life!
religion, drink, heathens, church, heaven and hell, humor, revival, pallbearers
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
For Politicians
We need a little padlock; With a red light and a bell; To hang upon the blabber-mouth; We use for "playin hell."
talk, words, politics
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
South of the Cap Rock
Oh, bury me South of the Cap Rock; Halfway to the Rio Grande, Where the eagles sail; O'er the Spanish Trail; And the tall pecan trees stand.
Texas, plateau, bride, lover, Llano
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Science--Romance
We studied shells on the beach today; And noted each shape and kind -- The fossils of starfish, suspecting and crabs.
ocean, waves, sand, seashell
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
So-Long
I dream again of the days agone; When I rode these hills with a six-gun on, When I was young and the range was free, And a rawhide saddle was home to me; In the days agone.
passing of an age, aging, death, wolf, wolves
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Texan's Code
If I berate or cuss your friend -- and whether wrong or right -- Defend him on the instant; If you have to start a fight.
Texas, friendship
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
True Livin
I've had the opportunity; To contrast and compare; A lot of towns and cities; And the folks a-livin' there.
city, friends, land, country
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
FC 11 A-03
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Carlos Ashley
Oh, Where Is That River?
Oh, where is that river Pa told me about; When I left for the Pecos this spring? I
Texas, squatter, death, water, desert
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Ole Edgar Martin
I seen Ole Edgar Martin a-ridin by jus now; He's goin up to Walker's to get that bald-faced cow.
neighbors, meat, Bigg's Meat Market, feeble-minded, help
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
That Spotted Sow or The Ballad of Cedar Mountain
Did you ever hear the story; Of that famous hog of mine?
hog, pig, Ole Spot, Sandy Creek
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
The Widder
It gits kinda lonesome out on the divide; With never a woman around, So about twice a year I saddle Ole Bell; And ride down the canyon to town.
women, marriage, proposal, widow, home cooking, pastor, preacher, bachelor
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
The King of the County Fair
A chestnut foal on tremblin legs; Is nudgin his mother's thigh, While Old Trav lolls in the stable shade; And stares with a dreamy eye.
June Bug, race tracks, horses, Texas, race horse, champion, racing
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
FC 11 A-03
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Carlos Ashley
The Substitute
Oh, the honor and the glory; That the football heroes get; Is well deserved -- they battle hard.
athlete
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Duty
If our home town needs improving, As they all most surely do, Well, that's you and you and you and me -- We need improving, too.
neighbors, friends, civic duty, pride
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
A Sermon
I've done a lot of thinkin; On the vanity and sin; Of the things folks deem important; In this world we're living in.
religion, Christianity, education, humility, values, honesty
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Old Blue
I dreamt I was a kid again --The world was bright and new; Beside me lay my target-gun; And my faithful hound -- Old Blue.
dog, hound, coon, hunting
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Values
Oh, the glamour and the clamor; That attend affairs of state; Seem to fascinate the rabble; And impress some folks as "great."
politics
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Blacksnake Bill
When the shadows of the evenin softly stroll across the hills, And the fever of the busy day is done; When the flamin fires of sunset quietly smolder into night, And the stars report for duty, one by one.
memories, childhood, Texas, Llano, San Saba, Cherokee, wagon, freighter, freight
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
The Big Convention
There are many wholesome pleasures; That delight the human soul -- For simple beauties in this world abound.
singing bee, dinner, song, food, mixed quartette, mixed quartet, chorus, When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder I'll Be There, convention
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
Service
If the road is rough and rocky as this life we journey through, Then we ought to take a little time to move a rock or two.
friendship
That Spotted Sow & Other Hill Country Ballads
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Carlos Ashley
I Built My House Upon a Hill
I built my house upon a hill; That I might search horizons far; To find my vagrant spirit lost; Upon some dim, unchristened star.
god, closeness to god