FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Sheep and the Goats

I don't mind working to earn my bread, And I'd just as soon keep it straight.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Ballade of the Boes

We are the true nobility!

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Grand Old Privilege

Folks say we got no morals -- that they all fell in the soup.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Nothing to Do but Go

I'm the ramblin' son with the nervous feet; That never was made for a steady beat.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Bread

Oh, my heart it is just achin'; For a little bite of bacon.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

On the Range

My pony was standin' thinkin' deep; Can hosses think?

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Patriot

When the Mausers are a-popping from some hazy bunch of brush.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

My Heart's Desire

My heart's desire is nothing great: Say just a little eight-by-eight.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Woodland Bird

Dim in the forest enchantment where a hidden bird rejoices.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Nannette

Over the height-of-land the trail; Wanders down to an inland sea.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Carcassonne (from the French)

Of years three-score; yea, I am old, And naught but toil has filled my days.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Romany Maid

O for the old days; On Lombardy highways.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Voyageurs

"Flambeau, lestang, DuBois, LaRue; Little man, big man, river man all.

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

For the Wind is Never Hushing

O mother, little mother, 't is a weary way before me!

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Where the Ponies Come to Drink

Up in Northern Arizona there's a Ranger-trail that passes; Through a mesa, like a faery lake with pines upon its brink.

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

I Have Builded Me a Home

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Pack Train

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Make Me No Grave

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

So Day by Day He Climbed the Hill

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Hour Beyond the Hour

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Sun-Worshipers

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Do You Remember?

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Gods of the Red Men

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

To My Dog, "Quien Sabe"

Songs of the Trail

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Henry Herbert Knibbs

Arizona