FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Composer
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Pages
Author
Poem Title
First Lines
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Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
93
Carol Ellis
Cattle Working
Horses snorting softly
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
94
Carol Ellis
Hot in Texas
That day was hot in Texas
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
95
Carol Ellis
Ground Tied
Mane flying, stirrups flapping
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
97
Carol Ellis
The Light in the Window
We've been riding, checking cattle
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
98
Carol Ellis
A Bad Day
A neighbor called one morning
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
100
Carol Ellis
Double Up-Set
Possum was no part a cow-dog
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
101
Carol Ellis
Needled
We arrived down in Texas
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
103
Carol Ellis
The Big Black Bull
The big black bull, as the way of bulls
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
104
Carol Ellis
Day Help
The foreman had misgivings
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
107
D.J. "DJ" Fry
The Cowboy and the Lady
He wasn't a very pretty sight
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
108
D.J. "DJ" Fry
Bub's Bull Ride
In Oklahoma, in '51, at least in our little corner of the state
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
111
D.J. "DJ" Fry
The Jump
As far back as anyone could recall
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
115
L. R. "Lucky" Glasscock
So You Want to be a Cowboy
So, you want to be a cowboy
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
116
L. R. "Lucky" Glasscock
The Fight
Way down in the Oklahoma hills
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
117
L. R. "Lucky" Glasscock
Girl on the Circle Bar Ranch
It's lonesome out here in west Texas
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
119
L. R. "Lucky" Glasscock
A Cowboy Looks at Christmas
Old Hoss' I been a sittin' here figgerin'
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
120
L. R. "Lucky" Glasscock
Alone
A cowboy is used to being alone
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
121
L. R. "Lucky" Glasscock
The Cowboy Becomes a Sailor
I went from being a brush-popping, calf-pulling, steer-roping, cowboy, to being a sailor in Uncle Sam's Navy, and this is the way it happened.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
122
L. R. "Lucky" Glasscock
Death
I saw him first by battles glow
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
123
L. R. "Lucky" Glasscock
Wayne
I first met him at a gatherin'
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
125
Dale Hartley
Long-Ago Version of "Marry a Millionaire"
The TV show "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire" reminds Me of the story of John and Eliza Hemry of Ray County.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
125
Dale Hartley
Funnel Cake
Just last August one hot day
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
127
Dale Hartley
Count Your Blessings Where Ever They Are
The other day while going to town
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
128
Dale Hartley
Hog Day Ends in Tragedy
Several years ago about a mine east of Bonanza, Mo., a family was butchering hogs.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
128
Dale Hartley
Wolf and Hunter Die Side by Side
Back years ago, the sighting of a wolf would usually bring several hunters, who would track or drive the wolf until he was killed.