FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
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Tommy Jarrell
The Bravest Cowboy
I am the bravest cowboy; That ever roamed the West.
brave, bullets, immigrant band, rob, steal, outlaw, courting, ball and chain, Texas
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
14
Slim Critchlow and Ian Tyson
The Brazos
We crossed the wide Pecos, we forded the Nueces.
Brazos River, court, love, hand, river, Li-le-li-lee, Lily, girl
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
16
Badger Clark
The Bunkhouse Orchestra
Wrangle up your mouth-harps, drag your banjo out.
"Turkey in the Straw", music, fire, song, dancing, bunkhouse
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
19
Reverend E.H. Chapin
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie.
death, dying, die, bury, boy, shallow grave, lone prairie, western sky, mourners
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
28
Sloan Matthews and Leonard Coulson
A Cowboy's Life
Talk about your farms and your Chinaman's charms.
dreary, life, heat, cold, silver, gold, roam, home, advice, sell, quit, roving, marry pretty little wife
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
30
Allen McCanless
The Cowboy's Soliloquy
All day o'er the prairie alone I ride.
alone, lonely, love, bride, Cupid, arrows, bold, gold, Lord, sky, grass, pulpit, parson, wolf, bones
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
32
Custer's Last Charge
It was just before brave Custer's charge.
war, love, two, soldiers, write, letter, mother, wife, dead, no one, lover, boy
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
35
Charley Rhodes
The Days of Forty-Nine
You see before you old Tom Moore.
California, gold, rush, Tom Moore, Bummer Shore, death, memories, comrades, friends
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
38
Kenneth Ward Atwood
Dry land Farmers
How well I do remember, how well I do recall.
remember, fat horses, twine, old sow bosom, rind, Indians, cowboys, farms, prairie, dry
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
40
Cartwright Brothers
The Dying Ranger
The sun was sinking in the west, it fell with lingering rays.
sunset, ranger, wounded, Texas, sister, dying, brother, rest, death, saddle for a pillow, gun, chest
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
42
Buck Lee
The Gol-Darned Wheel
I can rope and ride the wildest bronco in the wild and woolly West.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
46
Golden Slippers
Oh, the old banjo hanging on de wall.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
48
Lot Alexander
Herding Sheep for Granville Pace
On the fourteenth of October, I went a wild-goose chase.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
51
Bruce Kiskaddon
Hittin' the Trail Tonight
The moon rides high in the cloudless sky.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
54
Brewster Higby
Home on the Range
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
56
Slim Critchlow
I'd Like to be In Texas for the Roundup In The Spring
In a lobby of a big hotel in New York town one day.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
59
Jack Thorpe
Little Joe, the Wrangler
Little Joe, the wrangler, will never wrangle more.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
62
Jules Verne Allen
'Longside of the Santa Fe Trail
Say, pard, have you sighted a schooner; Way out on the Santa Fe Trail?
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
64
Jimmy Driftwood
Maid of Argenta
As I was a-riding on the streets of Argenta.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
66
Carl Sprague
Mormon Cowboy
I am a Mormon cowboy, Utah is my home.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
68
Tom Carter
Mustang Grey
There was a noble ranger, His name was Mustang Grey.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
70
Harry Stephens, Girls of the Golden West
The Night Herding Song
Hi-O-Hi-O-Hi-O /Hi-O-Hi-O-Hi-O; Oh slow up, dogies, quit your roamin' 'round.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
101
Skip Gorman and Carl Sprague
Utah Carol
Kind friends, you may ask me what makes me sad and still.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
104
Bob Palmer
Utah Trail
You ask me where I'm goin' so early in the dawn.
Old-Time Cowboy Songs
Hal Cannon
FC 11 C-34
107
John Averett and Dave Cook
We Left Our Homes in Utah
We left our homes in Utah, it seemed so very hard.