FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Bell-Bottoms to Boots
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
I Like It Here
There are those I know who long for the snow--
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Teasing Twilight
Sweet hour of twilight on the doorstep
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
"White Cross" Corey
This is the story of "White Cross" Corey,
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
The Rustler's Raw Romance
"Mother bade me choose the church
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Goatskin Love
I met Calhoun Lee at the Tivoli
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
One Last Look
It was a pretty picture--he looked back
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Tommy
Tommy was the ugliest one, so I saved him
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Sweet Texas
I have wandered far to the rainbow ends that are
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
An I.O.U.
Looking backward through the years since we were married, dear,
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Look at the Stars
When your brother-in-law comes for a visit,
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Plenty to Choose From
There is something about an oilfield that always calls you back
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
The Human Herd
During my rounds in this oil town
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
That Difference in Men
No difference in men? Say, listen, by friend--
(By "Zero" disagreeing with Blackie's Human Herd)
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Still Standing
Deep in the cotton country down by Caney bottoms,
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Dream Daughter
I have a house with a lock and key
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
At Forty
"Life begins," they tell us, "at forty,"
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Sermonette of a Sinner
There is a hell, some preachers tell,
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Fool's Ferment
He asked God to forgive him for being a drunkard.
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
My Normangee
It may have been the redbird singing in a tree
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
The Leaning Cross
Little one, why leans your cross
Down in the Land of Manana in the old Matamoras Cemetery is the vault of a famous Mexican family. Just a little apart on the same burial lot is the grave of a young girl of that family. The cross over her grave was purposely made so that it leaned almost halfway to the ground?
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Mexico
I may never return, Mexico--yet I love you.
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Little Lupe Cantu
Drive northward from Freer, and you will discover quite near
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Chapapote Red
Happy Jack was playing at the Duval Club one day
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Duval Country
This is cowboy country and driller country--
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Joe "Blackie" Wilson
You Aren't the Only One
Perhaps you've got a secret eating your heart--