FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
50
Don Kennington
Don't Use the Horseshoe Brand
The door clanged shut at the county jail, the gallows stand cold and tall.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
56
Don Kennington
The Ferriers Lament
Now I was shoeing this horse, just nailing away working on the end of another long day.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
60
Phil Kennington
Bobbed War
To keep cows in and stray stock out.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
63
Don Kennington
That Infernal Answering Machine
Well, I bought myself an answering machine to answer telephone calls.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
68
Don Kennington
Riding Drag
When I was seven or eight years old, they put me riding "drag."
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
74
Phil Kennington
Bully Slade
In younger days mid sun and breeze; We built a swing out in the tress.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
76
Don Kennington
The Cowboy
I've met a lot of cowboys in this great land of ours.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
83
Phil Kennington
The Last of the Old Fashioned Chair
On hands and knees on the old wood chair, knelt a five year old with scraggly hair.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
86
Don Kennington
The Cowboys' Dream
From daylight 'til dark for a hundred and found, and the rain and the cold and the heat.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
92
Phil Kennington
The Skunk & the Parrot
The honeymoon began to wear thin right after the "I Do's."
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
98
Don Kennington
A Long Enough Day
After a long day of nailing on shoes, my muscles and joints all sing the blues.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
100
Don Kennington
The Drugstore Cowboy
We were stacking hay at Crow Creek with about a half a crew.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
107
Phil Kennington
Smokey and the Blue Spotted Steer
Smokey roped and wrangled since he was just a kid.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
110
Don Kennington
Old Silver Tongue
I was leaning on the hitching rail, been bumming around the town.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
116
Phil Kennington
The Cowboy at the Beauty Contest
At first I didn't want to go but now I'm glad I went.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
122
Don Kennington
A Miracle
This is a story about a different king of miracle.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
127
Don Kennington
A Refund Check
I got a check from the government a return on my income tax.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
132
Don Kennington
The Holstein Yearlings
The wife and I were new in town and she figured a good way to get acquainted was to go to church.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
139
Don Kennington
The 'Appy'S Colt
Gathering cows on the flatlands, we were scattered pretty wide.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
145
Phil Kennington
Emmy Lou's Signature
You can honor grandpa's golden watch or the baby's lock of hair.
Yarns and Rhymes of Cowboy Times
Don and Phil Kennington
FC 11 K-15
151
Don Kennington
Think It Over
Seems I freeze or I sweat, but I always bet there's a better day coming along.
Bruce Kiskaddon Calendar Poems: 1951/2001
FC 11 K-20
1
Bruce Kiskaddon
Alfalfa Bloat
There's nothing gits a rancher's goat.
Bruce Kiskaddon Calendar Poems: 1951/2001
FC 11 K-20
2
Bruce Kiskaddon
Your Camp Fire
When there wasn't many fences and you traveled on your own.
Bruce Kiskaddon Calendar Poems: 1951/2001
FC 11 K-20
3
Bruce Kiskaddon
Coyote Bounty
There was one year the coyotes got terrible bad.
Bruce Kiskaddon Calendar Poems: 1951/2001
FC 11 K-20
4
Bruce Kiskaddon
The Ranch Wood Pile
They say that a cow boy won't chop wood.