FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Composer
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Author
Poem Title
First Lines
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Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-12
87
Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Dogies
As I walked out one morning for pleasure.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-12
362
Whose Old Cow
'Twas the end of the round-up, the last day of June.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-12
383
Wild Rovers
Come all you wild rovers.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-12
381
Windy Bill
Windy Bill was a Texas man.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-12
92
U-S-U Range
O come cowboys and listen to my song.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-12
239
Young Charlottie
Young Charlottie lived by a mountain side in a wild and lonely spot.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-12
81
Young Companions
Come all you young companions.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-12
154
The Zebra Dun
We were camped on the plains at the head of the Cimarron.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
1
Phil Le Noir
Down on the Ol' Bar-g
The boss he took a trip to France.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
2
Phil Le Noir
The Puncher Poet
Jest onct, I was a temper'mental, sentimental poet.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
3
Phil Le Noir
The Hangin' o' Wampus Pete
Ol' Wampus Pete was a hell-raisin' gent.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
5
Phil Le Noir
Ol' Dynamite
The outlaw stands with blindfold eyes.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
7
Phil Le Noir
The Finger of Billy the Kid
Oh, that finger of Billy the Kid.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
9
Phil Le Noir
When the Sheriff from the East Met the Sheriff from the West
The Sheriff from the West straightened out his fancy vest.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
11
Phil Le Noir
Eventide in Cowboyland
Wall, thar's the cowboy at his fire.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
13
Phil Le Noir
Bogged
Low-hung clouds o'er a gray-grassed range.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
14
Phil Le Noir
My Name is Charley Siringo
My name is Charley Siringo, -- ringo, ringo.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
15
Phil Le Noir
Helltown's First Sky Pilot
They called it Helltown, an' it was.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
18
Phil Le Noir
A Day in Desertland
A lizard streaked up the side of a rock.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
19
Phil Le Noir
Killer Keller
Killer Keller was a feller whose hide an' should was branded yeller.
Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly
FC 11 L-15
21
Phil Le Noir
Siesta Time
A mud-brown hut on a mesa bare.
Backtracks Through the High, Wide and Lonesome
FC 11 A-20
11
G.M. Atwater
Cowboy Life
You know how there's days when you hate it, when you cuss everything that you know and it seems like the whole crew is slacking, and the cattle won't like out and go?
toothache, indigestion, beer, revenge
Backtracks Through the High, Wide and Lonesome
FC 11 A-20
8
G.M. Atwater
Art
I'll always see Art with a shovel trudging out to run water uphill. There's fields to get wet if he wants to have hay; water goes where he says it will. The shovel is tossed in the pickup
pioneer, determination, old-timer, rainbows
The Blueberry Roan
FC 11 L-17
6
Bill Lowman
The Blueberry Roan
I was crawlin' the bar floor, jest lookin' fer a nickel.
The Blueberry Roan
FC 11 L-17
8
Bill Lowman
The Lemon Meringue Roan
He sez, turn 'em out, er jest let him stand.