FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

159

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Ballad of Billy the Kid

No man in the West ever won such renown; As young Billy Bonney of Santa Fe town.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

162

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Sandy Rue

A gray horse in the moonlight, a shadow on the wall.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

166

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Eh, Johnny-Jo?

Just turn me loose on them hills a spell!

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

168

Henry Herbert Knibbs

On the Range

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

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

170

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Apuni Oyis

There's a lodge in Arizona where the rugged pines are marching.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

172

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Down Along the Dim Trail

Down along the dim trail, far across the plain, Rode a waddie singing, heedless of the rain.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

174

Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Ranger and the Bear

Up in the high Sierras, where they overlook the Kern.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

177

Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Prospector

'Tis the wane of the moon and the midsummer revels are ended.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

180

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Songs of Men

To please the pale, aesthetic mind is not our chief desire or hope.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

183

Henry Herbert Knibbs

It was Overland the Red

"If you're askin' my opinion, well?"

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

184

Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Hills

Shall I leave the hills, the high, far hills; That shadow the morning plain?

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

185

Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Desert

'Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

187

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Sunshine Over Yuma

Sun down the road where once the range, Unfenced, rolled sweeping like the seas.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

189

Henry Herbert Knibbs

A Bronco Shod with Wings

Sing me a home beyond the stars, and if the song be fair.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

192

Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Lone Red Rock

A song of the range, an old-time song, To the patter of pony's feet.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

194

Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Far and Lonely Hill

Over on the Malibu we rode the range together.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

197

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Last of the Cavaliers

Nevermore shall the ranges ring as once when ye loped along.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

199

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Riders of the Stars

Twenty abreast down the Golden Street ten thousand riders marched.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

202

Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Lost Range

Only a few of us understood his ways and his outfit queer.

Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Mason and Janice Coggin

FC 11 K-23

205

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Make Me No Grave

Make me now grave within that quiet place; Where friends shall sadly view the grassy mound.

Cowboy Meditations

FC 11 L-02

Wade Lane

Angelic Music

Like the sweepin' soul stirrin' strains from a great symphony swingin' to its climactic tone picture under the rhythmic tempo set by the baton o' a masterful Leader.

Cowboy Meditations

FC 11 L-02

Wade Lane

Bide-a-Wee

Broad spaces o' sage brush with a background o' jagged mountain peaks.

Cowboy Meditations

FC 11 L-02

Wade Lane

Boastin'

Yuh kin talk about y'r gardens; Thet each spring yuh make by hand.

Cowboy Meditations

FC 11 L-02

Wade Lane

The Brook

God dropped snow from out His spacious Heavens; Like downy feathers, fallin' from the sky.

Cowboy Meditations

FC 11 L-02

Wade Lane

Closin' Time

Shadows o' the night creep softly into the western sky.