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

462

Kansas Land, I

I've reached the land of corn and wheat.

Uncle Sam, plains, claim, cars, freighted, dugout

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

463

Kansas Land, II

I've reached the land of short-grass fine.

homestead, dugout, plain, wind, hot, dust

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

464

Will S. Hays

The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim I

I am looking rather seedy now, while holding down my claim.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

466

Answer to the Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim

My Sam is getting seedy now, while holding down his claim.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

467

Answer to the Answer to the Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim

I'm not looking half so seedy, since I made my final proof.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

468

The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim II

A bumper crop of corn we raised in eighteen ninety-two.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

469

Tom Beasley

Little Adobe Casa

Just one year ago to-day, I left my eastern home.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

470

Will Howell

The Kansas Farmer's Lament

Come, listen to a granger.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

472

Comin' Back to Kansas

They are comin' back to Kansas.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

475

Will Carleton

But the Mortgage Worked the Hardest

We worked through spring and winter, through summer and through fall.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

476

C.S. Whitney

The Kansas Fool

We have the land to raise the wheat.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

478

Dear Prairie Home

There's a dear old homestead on Nebraska's fertile plain.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

480

There Comes a Reckoning Day

I had a dream the other night when every thing was still.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

482

Hannibal F. Johnson

Come, All Ye Toiling Millions

Come, all ye toiling millions that labor for your life.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

484

The Hayseed

I was once a tool of oppression.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

485

The Farmer

When the farmer comes to town.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

486

Henry Clay Work

Vote for Me

Oh father, dear father, come vote for me now.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

491

Harvest Land

The harvest drive is on again.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

493

The Swede from North Dakota

I bin a Swede from Nort' Dakota.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

494

Joe Hill

Ta-Ra-Ra Boom Dee-Ay

I had a job once threshing wheat, worked sixteen hours with hands and feet.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

496

Overalls and Snuff

One day as I was walking along the railroad track.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

498

Pat Brennan

The Harvest War Song

We are coming home, John Farmer; we are coming back to stay.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

499

Woody Guthrie

Tom Joad

Tom Joad got out of the Old McAlester Pen.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

502

Woody Guthrie

Pastures of Plenty

It's a mighty hard road that my poor hands has hoed.

Songs of the American West

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

FC 11 L-10

505

Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks, I

Fifty thousand lumberjacks, fifty thousand packs.