FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Book Title

Composer

Call #

Pages

Author

Poem Title

First Lines

Keywords

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

Away High Up in the Mogliones

Away high up in the Mogliones upon the mountain tops.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

The Dying Cowboy

Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie; These words came low and mournfully.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers

When the curtains of night are pinned back by the stars; And the beautiful moon sweeps the skies.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

Texas Cowboy

I'm going to leave old Texas now; They have no room for the longhorn cow.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

The Cowboy's Lament

As I rode out to Latern in Barin; As I rode out so early one day.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

Over the Trail

Out on the desert sear and brown.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

Away High Up in the Mogliones

Away high up in the Mogliones, upon the mountain tops.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

The Dying Cowboy

Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie; These words came slow and mournfully.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

The Dying Cowboy

Oh, bury not on the lone prairie; These words low and mournfully.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers

When the curtains of night are pinned back by the stars; And the beautiful moon sweeps the skies.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

107

Cowboy's Heaven

Tonight I'm a tired weary cowboy, I've been in the saddle all day.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

106

A Cowboy's Prayer

The cattle's bedded down on the prairie; The sun is hanging low in the west.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

104

Cowboy's Prayer at Twilight

When a cowboy's day is over and the sun sinks in the West.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

103

Do You Think There's a Prairie in Heaven?

It was on the lone western prairie, The western stars shone so bright.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

101

Drift Along Lonely Cowboy

In the far away heavens in distant blue skies.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

Once I Lived a Happy Life

Once I lived a happy life, 'way out on the plain.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

He's Gone Up the Trail

There's gloom around the bunkhouse tonight, There's gloom around the old coral.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

Stick Close to Your Bedding Ground

When the night is black and the storm clouds crack; Driving cattle wild with fear.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

A Cowboy's Prayer

Oh Lord, round us up in one great round up; And rope us with the cords of love.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

The Hell-Bound Train

Tom Gay lay down on the barroom floor, Having drank so much he could drink no more.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

Rattlin' Joe's Prayer

Just pile on some more o' them pine knots; And squat yourself down on this skin.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

A Cowboy at Church

Some time ago, two weeks or more, if I remember well.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

The Cowboy's Heaven

Onward, flow onward, time will never cease.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

The Cowman's Prayer

Now, O Lord, please lend Thine ear, The prayer of the cattle man to hear.

Heaven on Horseback

Austin and Alta Fife

FC 11 F-13

A Cowboy's Prayer

Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow.