FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Tails of the West
FC 11 M-44
13
Frank "Two Jump" Morris
Hot Beans
As the sun rises over our cow camp, it's a picture pastoral land serene./ With the sound of lowin' cattle and the smell of those good hot beans.
Tails of the West
FC 11 M-44
15
Frank "Two Jump" Morris
Pay Your Debts
The image burns in my brain
Tails of the West
FC 11 M-44
17
Frank "Two Jump" Morris
An Untitled Story on Hair Loss
I'm gonna tell a story that some men know about./ Ya see, I looked in the mirror this mornin' and saw my hair comin'out.
Tails of the West
FC 11 M-44
18
Frank "Two Jump" Morris
The Demise of Levi's
A man from far off Europe came, in the year of "49
Tails of the West
FC 11 M-44
19
Frank "Two Jump" Morris
Fall of the Cowboy
The horse moving across the copper green mesa stopped.
Tails of the West
FC 11 M-44
21
Frank "Two Jump" Morris
Cowboy Vesper
I was wonderin' lord, if we could have a talk,
Tails of the West
FC 11 M-44
23
Frank "Two Jump" Morris
Tales of the West
There is a good reason for walkin' behind,
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
1
Rusty Meador
Red Light Ranches
Nevada's my favor-rite place to go an buck-a-roo/ So gather round boy's, an I'll spin a yarn or two
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
3
Rusty Meador
The Man
Berry Binion is the man,/ Let me tell you boys about this ol' top hand
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
5
Rusty Meador
Hobblin' Your Stirrups
It happened at the Waggoner Ranch just about dawn
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
7
Rusty Meador
Elmo C. Cowboy
A green-horn came to the feed pen's just after dawn/They were so short handed that the boss put him on
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
9
Rusty Meador
By Dad's "Revenge"
Ol' Fred Martin rode to Wallace Crawford's one night,
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
11
Rusty Meador
Remedy for Brownie
Ol' Rex Meador, and an hombre named "Sam Cox"
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
12
Rusty Meador
Today's Cowpuncher
The ol' days have come and gone somehow,
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
13
Rusty Meador
Ol' Blackie
I was sittin in a western saloon one day/ When a feller walked up to me to say
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
14
Rusty Meador
Finally Rolled a Seven
It was out Nevada way, in a town they call Mesquite,/ When the cowboy and the lady, happened on that day to meet.
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
15
Rusty Meador
"Wild Bill" Johnson
Out New Mexico way, in the town of Cimarron,/Lies the cow country that Bill Johnson called his home.
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
16
Rusty Meador
Another Ol' Baldy
I guess every a Cowboy has riddin' an ol'Baldy
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
17
Rusty Meador
Make Mine the Two Step
When I was just a button, out in New Mexico
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
18
Rusty Meador
Ol' Mister Short
Now here's the story about ol' Mister Short
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
19
Rusty Meador
Whiskey Blues
In my drunken slumber I sit and stew,/ And wonder if the devil himself made this brew.
Cowboy Odes
FC 11 M-42
20
Rusty Meador
Cowboy Christmas Promise
It was Christmas eve around the old bunkhouse
Poems of the West by Charles Badger Clark, Jr.: Previously Unpublished
Greg Scott
FC 11 S-37
10
Charles Badger Clark, Jr.
The Roundup
Come, strap on your chaps and your big spurs, too and wrangle your hawses as soon as you're through
Poems of the West by Charles Badger Clark, Jr.: Previously Unpublished
Greg Scott
FC 11 S-37
11
Charles Badger Clark, Jr.
A Love letter
The sun rose clear and glorious today
Poems of the West by Charles Badger Clark, Jr.: Previously Unpublished
Greg Scott
FC 11 S-37
13
Charles Badger Clark, Jr.
Exiled Black Heeler
Though a restless man may wander, from Johannesburg to Nome