FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
86
Wallace McRae
Put That Back?Hoedown
Supercolliders, M H D.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
89
Wallace McRae
Call Anytime
Old school pals in California call up at 3 am.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
90
Wallace McRae
The Livestock Leader
He's the most successful rancher maybe, in the whole dang state.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
91
Wallace McRae
Rachel
Every neighborhood has got one.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
92
Wallace McRae
Definitions of Poor
We was dirt poor in the thirties and forties.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
94
Wallace McRae
Pax Vobiscum
My hired hand quit the other day.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
95
Wallace McRae
Shopping
Dang near every Tuesday I go and watch the cattle sell.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
96
Wallace McRae
The Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive
The first day out we worked the herd as they bounced and jostled by.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
98
Wallace McRae
Dock Groom
I see a yellow Studebaker.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
100
Wallace McRae
Hired Hand
You know, some men just look like a cowboy.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
102
Wallace McRae
Weeds
The lawn is filled with dandelions.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
103
Wallace McRae
Box Elders
A box elder's a plumb sorry tree.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
104
Wallace McRae
Ain't No Cowboy Heaven
Whenever western writers write.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
106
Wallace McRae
The Lingo of Our Callin'
Now, let's say that you had growed up.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
108
Wallace McRae
A Cost-Return Analysis
I gave a calf a three-way blackleg shot.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
109
Wallace McRae
Handy Harry
You've know guys like Harry, so handy they're scary.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
110
Wallace McRae
Me and the Hippie on the Greyhound Bus
"What sign was you born underneath?"
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
112
Wallace McRae
Bareback Rider
He used to turn his toes out; reach and jerk among the best.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
114
Wallace McRae
Holiday Season
"Happy Holidays," they tell me.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
115
Wallace McRae
My Requiem
Some leave their mark on a branded hide.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
116
Wallace McRae
The Compleat Cowboy
Trade my old rough-out for a flower stamp.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
117
Wallace McRae
Different Drummers
The rumbling bridge and the barking dog.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
118
Wallace McRae
Riders' Block
Tonight they're trying, once again.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
120
Wallace McRae
Signs
It's not the crying V's of geese.
Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
FC 11 M-45
121
Wallace McRae
Gooseberries
Gooseberry bushes with hostility bristle.