FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

A Cowboy is Going to Town

In the mail I got a letter.

East, mail, letter, invitation, rawhide, Smithsonian, Washington D.C., women, West

One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

The Big Roping

I went into the Big Roping.

roping, Corrientes, competition

One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

Life is Like a Game of Poker

I went to church on Sunday.

Sunday, church, preacher, God, poker, life, game, luck, belief, deal, cards

One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

A Cowboys Thinkin'

The Good Book says there will be a great roundup.

Bible, Judgment Day, heaven, afterlife, angels, belief

One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

Signs of the Times

Seems like everybody going crazy.

confusion, progress, modern day, politicians, politics, political parties, vote, taxes

One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

The Subdivisions

I rode back into some Country.

memories, progress, mobile homes, development, modern times, landscaping, dam, subdivisions

One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

All Kinds of Cowboys

I could tell you a lot of stories.

cowboys, story, windies, Dutch ovens, memories, occupational lore, occupation

One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

Never Give Up

There are times everything goes wrong.

luck, trouble, despair, hope, disappointment, quitters, winners, tenacity

One Man of a Kind

FC 11 B-17

Everett Brisendine

Farewell to the Festival in Washington, D.C.

Now folks I want to tell you.

Washington, D.C., story, Arizona, memories, experience, East, West, folks, adios

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

To: A Slightly Wonderful Old Gentleman--My Father

Who used to hold me on his knee.

father, childhood, parent, tribute, devotion

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

Her Porch of Screen

She was so small, barely five foot two.

housework, wife, death, love, fragility, woman

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

The Rim rocks

There is a land called Utah...a land sunburned and dry.

Utah, land, dry, rim rock, canyon, bunchgrass, Bitter Creek, children ,barefoot, play, memories, bittersweet

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

Brewer's Rock

She towers a top her pedestal encircled by the sage.

nature, prehistoric, rock, ranch, Brewer's Rock, time, aging, memories, life

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Gusty Winds

My name is Gusty Winds.

wind, breeze, tornado, thunder, lightning

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Old Horse

Old horse your days are numbered.

horse, Buck, lame, grass, companion, friendship, companionship

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Don't Feed Your Chickens Meat

Mother nature made her chickens to thrive on corn and wheat.

chickens, poultry, chicken feed, meat, meat-eaters, eagle, disposition

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

The Phantom Horse

There is a place where the big hawks soar over the Utah rims.

Utah, Bitter Creek, mustangs, buckskin, horse, phantom horse, phantom rider

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

The Reps from Bitter Creek

We camped up on the mountain at the head of old P.R.

camping, pack, string, Purdy boys, Squires, Johnny Mock, Dude Larson, Willow Creek, Bitter Creek, youth, T+X, kid, nine-year-old, gray horse, ugly horse, Dynamite, Jack, glassy eye

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Oh Lucky Boy

Oh, I was the luckiest boy in the world for I had an old time cowboy for my dad.

father, son, youth, childhood, being square, mother, family, home, lucky, aging, grandfather

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

These Things

Some towering rim rocks, sheer and brown.

memories, family, home, mother, father, youth, childhood, aging

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Ode To a Johnnie

Pansies have bright little faces that smile on the whole world the same.

flowers, pansies, rose, violet, johnnies, shade, nature

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

Jerry McCarty

Jerry McCarty was a wolf.

wolf, whelp, wolf pack, pup, bounty, pet, death, children, family, home

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

As the Poppies Blossom Red

The old house slumps in the quakie trees.

aspen, house, home, aging, time, poppies, family, seasons

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

The Legion of the Lost

They come from every walk in life, they go, no man knows where.

love, bums, pity, fallen woman, broken heart, hobo, judgment, stranger, suicide, end of the trail, daughter, lost

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

The Little Bay Racer

You can talk about your horses, of your thoroughbreds an' such.

race horse, thoroughbred, bay, wild horse, racer, bucking horse