FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

412

The Buffalo Hunters

Come, all you pretty girls, to you these lines I'll write.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

414

D.J. O'Malley

Cowboy Reverie

Tonight as I rode 'round my cattle.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

415

The Invasion Song

Sad and dismal is the tale.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

416

Home, Sweet Home

We were lying on a prairie on Slaughter's ranch one night.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

421

The Dying Cowboy

"Oh! bury me not on the lone prairie!"

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

423

N. Howard Thorp

Little Joe, the Wrangler

Little Joe, the wrangler, will never wrangle more.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

426

The Cowboy's Lament

As I walked out in the streets of Laredo.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

428

The Cowboy's Dream

Last night as I lay on the prairie.

Rambler's Notebook: 50 Years of Scribblin': Songs & Poems from the Road

FC 11 A-16

73

Singin' Sam Agins

Real Love?

Some day, you will grow old. Into that delicate white complexion, will creep a line or two.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

430

D.J. O'Malley

Charlie Rutledge

Another good cow puncher has gone to meet his fate.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

432

D.J. O'Malley

When Work is Done This Fall

A group of jolly cowboys discussed their plans at ease.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

434

I've Got No Use for the Women

Now, I've got no use for the women.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

436

Utah Carroll

Oh, kind friend, you may ask me what makes me sad and still.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

438

Only a Cowboy

'Way out in old Texas, that great Lone Star State.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

440

Blood on the Saddle

There was blood on the saddle.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

443

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Kansas Emigrant

We cross the prairies as of old.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

445

Daniel E. Kelley

Western Home

Oh! give me a home where the buffalo roam.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

446

Home on the Range

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

448

Immigration Song

Come, all ye sons of labor.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

449

A.L. Stokesberry

The Old Bachelor

I am a stern old bachelor.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

450

Kansas Jayhawker

I'm a Jayhawker girl from a Jayhawker State.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

452

Kansas Boys

Come, all young girls; pay attention to my noise.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

454

In Kansas

Oh, they chaw tobacco thin in Kansas.

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

457

Frank Baker

Starving to Death on a Government Claim

Frank Baker's my name, and a bachelor I am.

soil, Lane County, grasshopper, bedbug, flea, sorghum

Songs of the American West

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen

FC 11 L-10

460

John A. Dean

Nebraska Land

We're in a land of drouth and heat.

winds, soil, Gabriel, starvation, poor