FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Yellowstone

I just came back from Yellowstone Park man, that fire was more than a spark.

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Winters Last Fling

When I woke this morning I got up and looked outside, the cold scene that caught my eye I just went back to bed and cried.

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Cowboy Education

I drove my truck into the city today to sign papers for U.S.D.A, the E.P.A.,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

First Time Cowboy

Sam met this young cowgirl

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Working Cowboy

I've been a working cowboy

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Joe's Story

Let me tell you the story of young cowboy Joe

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

The Cowboy

He watched the horses as they galloped by,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

A Cowboy's Day

I awake before the alarm clock rings

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Cowboy Courting

The ranch-hand cowboy has a lonely life just no woman around for taking a wife

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Gold Water

They say out near Elko there is gold in all the soil,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

The Sheep Herder

I remember back when jobs were few we would try most anything.

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

The Sick Cat

Pets around the bunkhouse I'm sure is nothing new,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Ornery Critters

There are some horses born to buck to stay on board take both skill and luck.

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Getting Old

It seems like only yesterday that I was just a kid,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

E.P.A.

Environment Protection Agency commonly known as the E.P.A,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Hot Shot

Cowboys like to brag about the things that they do well,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Cowboy's Plight

The real working cowboy has trouble finding a wife,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Old Reliable

My old pickup truck bought new in seventy-three

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Holding Hands

Nearly every Saturday night you might say I had a date,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Stranger in Town

It seems too quiet in town today the dogs and horses are shaded up,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Mom's Little Girl

I'm mom's only girl she has five boys, at Christmas I get a doll

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Gambling

My wife and her Mother had a spat

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

Indian Lore

I like to work with old Indian Joe he claims to be half Crow and half Sioux,

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

The Deer Hunter

He jumped a big buckskin climbed off of his horse that buck was going full throttle.

I'd Make an Awful Pioneer

FC 11 J-12

Reed C. Jensen

How Cold Was It?

When I went out this morning I gosh-darn nearly froze,