FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
124
Wesley Beggs
The Tar Daubers of Shady Bend, Kansas
To the Shady Bend tar daubers.
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
125
Wesley Beggs
A Stampede in North Dakota
Talk about your milling cattle and stampede on the plains.
home, weather, storm, Wadsworth Brothers, punching cattle
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
129
Wesley Beggs
When Lillie Roundup Throws Her Rope
When Lillie Roundup throws her rope.
roping, female, roper, horse, girl, cowgirl
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
132
Wesley Beggs
Montana, the Gem of the West
I will sing of Montana, the gem of the West.
song, Treasure State, pride, proud, sun, water, Angel of Peace
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
135
Wesley Beggs
Drifting Around
Perhaps you have run on the ranges of sin.
belief, doubt, God, religion, soul, despair, hope
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
136
Wesley Beggs
The Wife That I Loved So Well
Across the hills of sorrow.
song, prison, jail, penitentiary, family, home, wife, mother, children, friends, sweetheart, love, roam, roaming, loss, alone, lonely, loneliness
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
141
Wesley Beggs
A Happy Home, 1892
We in our happy home, dear wife.
love, time, past, life, hardship, marriage, death, children
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
144
Wesley Beggs
The Darkies Are Leaving Oklahoma
Oh, the darkies am offended.
Blacks, ethnic, Negro, race, racial prejudice, song, country, United States, America, pickaninnies, pickaninney
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
146
Wesley Beggs
For That Bronk Will Throw His Rider Away Out in Beulah Land
Away out in the country on the far Pacific slope.
Ireland, female, cowgirl, song, bronc, cayuse, peace and rest, Hannah
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
148
Wesley Beggs
The Land That I Love, or the Roundup Coming Through
I am going away to the land that I love.
song, Oklahoma, home, the beautiful land, nature, past, change, longhorn
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
151
Wesley Beggs
Home on the Rangeland
My home is on the rangeland, far away from any town.
Rockies, nature, Rocky Mountains
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
152
Wesley Beggs
The Locoed Sheep
When you get to be a loco.
song, loco weed, dope
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
153
Wesley Beggs
The Cowboys' Last Retreat
Well, Flood, old pard, cold, cruel fate.
friend, friendship, prison, penitentiary, jail, pardners, life
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
156
Wesley Beggs
Farewell to Montana, the Gem of the West
Farewell to Montana, the Gem of the West.
roam, sorrow, children, loss
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
158
Wesley Beggs
Oklahoma, Meaning Beautiful Land
Oh, let us look back to that country again.
song, south, nature
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
160
Wesley Beggs
Flannigan's Pan Cake
Flannigan, the bachelor, lived up in a hall.
pancakes, school teacher, food, bake, cooking, wife, spouse, ore, assayer, gold, Irish
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
162
Wesley Beggs
Give Me the Woman Who Loves the Fresh Air
Oh, give me the woman who loves the fresh air.
female, girl
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
164
Wesley Beggs
On the Bellefouche Far Away
Talk about your pretty countries and a climate all superb.
Black Hills, South Dakota, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Sitting Bull, Standing Rock, nature
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
167
Wesley Beggs
When Lovina Was My Sweetheart So Many Years Ago
'Midst the green fields of Ohio as the western sun reclines.
love song, romance, girlfriend, boyfriend, lover, Ohio
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
170
Wesley Beggs
Leaving the Old Farm for the City
I say, dear wife, we'll pack our trunks and to the city go.
Plugmyer, fashion, modern, marriage, husband, wife, money, happiness, home [Old Mr. and Mrs. Plugmyer leave their quiet home for the city, and are led away by fashions, and become gay, but at last return to the old farm.]
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
174
Wesley Beggs
The Horrors of a Prison Cell
Well, Pard, old boy, cold cruel fate.
prison, penitentiary, jail, fear, Jesus Christ, religion, Christianity, belief, God
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
178
Wesley Beggs
Just to Be a Rancher's Wife
When the rose bud greets the lily.
spouse, husband, wife, marriage, family, home, work, female, woman, women, occupation, profession
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
180
Wesley Beggs
Far From My Happy Home
I've wandered far from thee, dear wife.
song, marriage, spouse, husband, memory, memories, life, past, lonely, loneliness, aging, love, death
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
183
Wesley Beggs
To the Cranky Freight Agent
I thank you for your photograph.
Alturas, California, railroad, NCO, N.C.O., Mr. Holigan
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
185
Wesley Beggs
Farewell to My Saddle and Rope
I will now quit the range of the cattle.
Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christianity, religion, belief, God, afterlife, death, farewell, hope