FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
65
Tom Sharpe
Just Past the Toe of Your Boot
Just past the toe of your boot, Your whole life comes back to you.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
62
Tom Sharpe
Dancin'
Now my daddy was a dancer.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
58
Kay Kelley
Spider
Old Spider was a big brown horse.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
57
Kay Kelley
When Bulls Fight Near the Fence
When bulls fight near the fence, of course.
wreck, fence, bulls, hole, luck, battle, truck
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
55
Kay Kelley
The Ballad of Buzz and Art
Ol' Bryan out in Santa Fe.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
53
Jim Shelton
Shorty
Oh, the man was sure my pardner.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
50
Jim Shelton
I Depended on my Pardner
I've had some damn bad predicaments.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
92
Ray Fitzgerald
Reminiscin'
When we get to reminiscin'.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
95
Peggy Godfrey
I Tried
Seven barely-yearlin' bulls.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
116
Kent Stockton
Minor Addiction
I crawled form my sougans an' reached for the pack.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
113
Maggie Mae Sharp
One Man's Hands
My anger rose high at his last words.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
111
Maggie Mae Sharp
A True Injustice
There are so many things that I've come to love; About our western life.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
109
Rod McQueary
Lyle and Hawkeye
After preg-testing.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
107
Rod McQueary
For Steve and Ted
Slim comes back, reporting.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
104
Rod McQueary
On Checking the Cows Sunday Evening, March 21, 1993
I'm not so angry now.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
102
Peggy Godfrey
Free Verse
After I perform my rhyme.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
100
Peggy Godfrey
The Vigil of 559
One solitary black baldy.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
97
Peggy Godfrey
Real Wealth
My neighbors don't live close to me.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
118
Kent Stockton
Top Hand
The West has spawned some punchers.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
120
Kent Stockton
My Hamley
There's some mighty nice saddles that's built nowadays.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
121
Jesse Smith
The Three-Wheeler
I've ridden lots of old spoiled horses.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
25
Jesse Smith
Air'd Out
I was ridin' this little sorrel horse.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
129
Jesse Smith
Freeways and Cars
An old cowman sat on the porch, watched the sun sink behind the hill.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
131
Mike Dawson
The Young Cowboy
A cowboy young, a young cowboy.
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass
Warren Miller
FC 11 C-35
134
Mike Dawson
Cowboy Common Sense
In them Sierry Petes out Preskit way.