FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

129

Bar-Z on a Sunday Night

We ain't no saints on the Bar-Z ranch.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

131

A Cowboy Race

A pattering rush like the rattle of hail.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

132

The Habit

I've beat my way wherever any winds have blown.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

134

A Ranger

He never made parade of tooth or claw.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

137

The Insult

I've swum the Colorado where she runs close down to hell.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

138

"The Road to Ruin"

I went into the grog-shop, Tom, and stood beside the bar.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

140

The Outlaw

When the loop takes hold on a two-year-old.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

142

The Desert

'Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

145

Whiskey Bill - A Fragment

A-down the road and gun in hand.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

146

Denver Jim

"Say, fellers, that ornery their must be nigh us.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

150

The Vigilantes

We are the whirlwinds that winnow the West.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

152

The Bandit's Grave

'Mid lava rock and glaring sand.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

154

The Old Mackenzie Trail

See, stretching yonder o'er that low divide.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

158

The Sheep-Herder

All day across the sagebrush flat.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

162

A Cowboy at the Carnival

Yes, o' cose it's interstin' to a feller from the range.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

165

The Old Cowman

I rode across a valley range.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

168

The Gila Monster Route

The lingering sunset across the plains.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

172

The Call of the Plains

Ho! Wind of the far, far prairies!

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

174

Where the Grizzly Dwells

I admire the artificial art of the East.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

176

A Cowboy Toast

Here's to the passing cowboy, the plowman's pioneer.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

179

Ridin' up the Rocky Trail from Town

We're the children of the open and we hate the haunts o' men.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

182

The Disappointed Tenderfoot

He reached the West in a palace car where the writers tell us the cowboys are.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

184

A Cowboy Alone with His Conscience

When I ride into the mountains on my little bronco bird.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

187

Just A-Ridin'!

Oh, for me a horse and saddle.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John A. Lomax

FC 11 L-13

189

The End of the Trail

Soh, Bossie, soh!