FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
507
Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks, II
Fifty thousand lumberjacks goin' out to work.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
508
James Stevens
The Frozen Logger
As I set down one evening in a timber town caf?.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
510
Loren Roberts
The Tragedy of Sunset Land
There's a little Western city in the shadow of the hills.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
511
O.L. Ufavise
Them Days is Gone Forever
Come, all you old loggers, and list to my tale.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
515
Harry Norcross
A Dollar a Day Without Board
I've traveled this wide world o'er and o'er.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
517
Fred Woodhull
The San Francisco Rag-Picker
O, ladies and gentlemen, list to my song.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
519
Walquist
Ship Out
Nothing to do, sucker darling.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
520
Richard Brazier
The Suckers Sadly Gather
Oh! The suckers sadly gather around the Red Cross office door.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
521
Joe Hill
It's a Long Way Down to the Soup Line
Bill Brown came a thousand miles to work on Frisco Fair.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
522
Go to Sea No More
When first I went to Frisco, I went upon the spree.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
524
The Ballad of Bloody Thursday
As I was a-walking one day down in Frisco.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
529
Harry McClintock
Hallelujah, on the Bum
O, why don't you work as other men do?
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
530
The Bum on the Stem
On the highways and the railroad tracks.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
532
The Great American Bum
Come, all you cinder grifters.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
534
Harry McClintock
The Big Rock Candy Mountains, I
One summer day in the month of May.
jocker, Hoosier, bum, cigarette, hike
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
536
The Big Rock Candy Mountains, II
One evening as the sun went down.
hobo
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
538
Woody Guthrie
Hard Travelin'
I been havin' some hard travelin', I thought you knowed.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
539
The Dying Hobo
Beside a Western water tank.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
540
The Hobo's Last Ride
In the Dodge City yards of the Santa Fe.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
543
Oh, You Wobblies!
I've traveled north, I've traveled south.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
544
Joe Hill
The Preacher and the Slave
Long-haired preachers come out every night.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
546
Richard Brazier
When You Wear That Button
I met him in Dakota when the harvesting was o'er.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
547
Joe Hill
Scissor Bill
You may ramble 'round the country anywhere you will.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
548
We're Bound for San Diego
In that town called San Diego when the workers try to talk.
Songs of the American West
Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen
FC 11 L-10
550
Harry Orchard
Harry Orchard is in prison.