FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
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Glen Enloe
A Boy That Ain't Got No Quit
He'd been throwed off some of the best, Stomped down in the mud and spit.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
27
Glen Enloe
The First Ride
The first time I rode a horse, I was a kid, of course.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
28
Glen Enloe
Buyin' the Farm
There's a tree growin' through the silo, And a cattle chute fallin' down.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
29
Glen Enloe
Silver Screens and Silent Sagebrush
Silver screens and silent sagebrush; Once gave comfort to heavy loads.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
30
Glen Enloe
When Billy the Kid Met Jesse James
Threre's a rumored story that Jesse and Billy met.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
31
Glen Enloe
Something You Always Remember
There'd been a calf a missin' fer a week or two, So I tagged long with Pap to see what we could do.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
32
Glen Enloe
Gunfight in Springfield Square
Legend has it they were friends a long time ago, Some say Dave Tutt was a man of Wild Bill's own heart.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
34
Glen Enloe
Cowboy Out in the Rain
When you're used to bein' the head honcho, On a ranch in a world's that's gone insane.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
35
Glen Enloe
The Showdown at the O.K. Corral
Ike Clapton had been drinkin' and raisin' some cane.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
37
Glen Enloe
Ol' Spud
I'll be ridin' the trail alone these days, The years have caught up with my bud.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
38
Glen Enloe
Ol' Spud Rides Again
There was somethin' movin' caught my eye, When I was workin' round the barn one day.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
39
Glen Enloe
A Cowboy's Gotta Have Dreams
Sometimes I get a little weary; Jest a ridin' fields and streams.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
40
Glen Enloe
The Last Roundup
I'm headin' fer the last roundup, But it may be a long way from here.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
40
Glen Enloe
Stew McGrue
The ranch hands don't know my real name -- I be the cook, ol' Stew McGrue.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
41
Glen Enloe
That Lonesome Lone Ranger
I've a still been missin' that lonesome Lone Ranger, In a bleak ol' world that jest a keeps a getting' stranger.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
42
Glen Enloe
The Story of Frank Leslie
Little Frank Leslie, "Buckskin," by nick name, Hired me to help with chores out on his farm.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
43
Glen Enloe
The Final Solution
Ta weren't so long ago; When a man was a man.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
44
Glen Enloe
The King of the Cowboys
I'm not sure I really believed it at all then, if I ever did.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
45
Glen Enloe
Gimpy O'Kee
I'm Gimpy O'Kee from west Tennessee -- Don't tolerate no politics correct.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
45
Glen Enloe
A Little Bit of Country
Some say there's jest a little bit of cowboy in all of us.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
46
Glen Enloe
Cowboy Clowns
They've got those funny cowboy hats with horns a stickin' out.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
47
Glen Enloe
Watchin' Those Heroes Die
Watchin' thos Saturday mornin' matinee heroes die, We always knew that they really weren't dead at all.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
48
Glen Enloe
Dark Taker
Folks just call me crazy for taking all those chances, Workin' rodeos for low wages just to buy an acre.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
49
Glen Enloe
Aces & Eights
They now call it the dead man's hand: A queen, two aces and two eights.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
50
Glen Enloe
A Cowboy Tradition
It seems back in the 1950s without any premeditation.