FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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I'd Make an Awful Pioneer
FC 11 J-12
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Reed C. Jensen
First Date
Our dates fizzled out, so we got together like all good cowboys, we discussed the weather.
I'd Make an Awful Pioneer
FC 11 J-12
58
Reed C. Jensen
Selling Out
A cowboy's day starts early it is true and it will be dark before it is through.
Cowboy Poetry (Herald Journal, 6 June 1985)
FC 11 C-44
Patrick Williams
Newspaper on cowboy poetry.
A cattle inspector is just like a woman
FC 11 H-38, no. 1 (2 copies)
Drum Hadley
A cattle inspector is just like a woman
Well, we finally captured an old cow who'd been runnin' mostly on a neighbor's ranch for the past two years.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
VII
Jack Kreitzer
Introduction
For tens of hundreds of thousands of years,
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
6
Dick Brown
Dreary Black Hills
Kind friends you must pity my horrible tale, I'm an object of pity I'm looking quite stale.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
10
unknown, music by George Root
Just Before the Drawing, Sweetheart
Just before the drawing sweetheart.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
11
unknown, music by Henry Clay Work
Wandering Willie
Oh have you seen our wandering Willie in his journey through your state?
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
12
unknown
Teaching Public School
If a body meets a lassie comin' down the street, with her dinner pail a swingin', lookin' nicely neat.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
13
unknown, music by John R. Sweney
Dakota Land
We've reached the land of waving wheat where nothing grows for man to eat.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
15
Terry, S. D. -- Shortfellow
Where they Never Skate
A soldier of the "legion" lay dying down in Lead;
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
17
Mrs. M. L. Hoppin
The Mills of Lead
Rugged Castles of strength are they, built well in the hillside grey
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
18
Henry J. Breen, music by George Botsford
Pride of the Prairie
On the wild and woolly prairie, not so far from old Pueblo Town, lived a little girl names Mary,
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
20
Bernon Alger
Blue Seal Blues
I'm the kind of man you seldom find.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
23
George B. German
Windy Bill's Famous Ride
Windy Bill was loafin' round town one sunny day, he was nigh out of terbacker an' not drawin' any pay.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
24
George B. German
I Learned about Horses From Him
"Twas on the Horse Shoe in old Arizona that I rode my first bucking outlaw.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
26
George B. German
I Rode Old Paint Right into Heaven
I rode old Paint right into heaven, right thru the pearly gate.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
28
Steven Willard (Rusty) Holman
Uncle Sam's Doughboy Roped a Wild Irish Rose
An Uncle Sam's dough-boy roped a wild Irish Rose, way over in Ireland where the sweet roses grow.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
30
Benjamin C. and Helmi Stoller
Beautiful Hills of Dakota
In the Black Hills of South Dakota with spruce and pine trees galore, I'm yearning to make it my home,
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
32
Benjamin C. Stoller
I've Been a Cowboy
Just an old cowboy at a rodeo, on a bale of hay lookin' so down love, as I rode by I heard him sigh these words in this refrain.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
33
Tex Fletcher
My Harding County Home
Not so many years ago I left old Buffalo, the place that I have always loved the best.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
34
Tex Fletcher
Tipperary
Way out in old South Dakota where flows the old river Grand, once roamed the greatest of outlaws who was known all over the land.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
38
Charles Badger Clark
The Glory Trail
Way high up in the Mogollons among the mountain tops a lion cleaned a yearling's bones and licked his thankful chops.
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
40
Charles Badger Clark
A Border Affair
Spanish is the lovin' tongue, soft as music light as spray;
A Living Tradition -- South Dakota Songwriters Songbook Volume 1
George B. German Music Archives
FC 11 G-02
41
Lloyd Prichard
Old Cowboy
Old cowboy sittin' there, thinking of the past; dreamin' of those bygone days, a time that couldn't last.