FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
98
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
To Bill Dunn
(A tramp "poet" goes to church expecting the same blah-blah )
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
99
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Christmas
You can tell...The roosters crow
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
100
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Day After Christmas
Just a piece of twisted tinsel
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
101
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
God Help the Roughnecks
Down o'r smoky mountain, down thru misty
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
102
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Patsy Jowell
You missed a lot if you did not go
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
103
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Green Pastures
He walked thru an orange grove at midnight
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
104
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Doggerel Brewing
(He) "A winter moon golden pale, peeping...
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
105
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
The Counter Balance
She wanted figures and he gave her a song
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
106
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Green
Your dress at the time was a shimmering green
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
107
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Wally
The sight of her put thunder in his ears
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
108
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
I Looked at You
How can I write of little Darlene
(A poem was requested for Darlene's baby book, by her lovely young mother.)
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
109
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
My Freer
Freer I learned to love you while I walked your streets alone
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
110
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
The Treasure House
Here beats the heart of these rough, rugged ranges
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
111
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Scales
Now take this idea of social scales--
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
112
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
The Case of the Drunken Swede
Now this is a story without a moral
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
115
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Judge Not Too Quickly
It takes more than boots to make a ranger--
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
116
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Real or Unreal
When cold silent night hovers over us
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
117
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Suicide
There was a dead wall past which he could not see,
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
118
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
The Smuggler's Wedding
She reminded me, somehow, of mountain laurel--
I met a "tough" by a river bluff and he told me his love-story... I pass it to you believing it true, altho a trifle gory!
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
120
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
King of the Brush
It was in the border country where the Rio Grande flows
(NOTE: This is the tale of a pioneer who chose between "Relief" and Freer.)
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
123
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Beauty and Truth
"What IS Truth?" I asked in my youth
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
124
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
One Thing Wrong With the Navy
I got up this morning talking about deep water,
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
125
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Sailor Memories
In my dreams I keep on drifting
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
126
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
Picture for Davy Jones' Locker
Ten little pigs and a red-eyed snake
Bell-Bottoms to Boots
FC 11 W-07
130
Joe "Blackie" Wilson
A Sailor's Souvenir
Back in the days of seventeen