FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Kitty Wells

You ask what makes this darkey weep,

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The Pardon Came Too Late

A fair-haired boy in a foreign land at sunrise was to die;

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The Sailor's Plea

Dear sweetheart as I write to you my heart is filled with pain.

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Put My Little Shoe Away

Now come bathe my forehead Mother, for I'm growing weak

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Take me back to Colorado

Take me back to Colorado, she's a beatin' old Nevada

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Free From the Chain Gang

I got rid of the shackles that bound me

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The Picture on the Wall

There is an old and faded picture on the wall.

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There's no disappointment in Heaven: as sung by Cowboy Slim

There's no disappointment in heaven, no weariness, sorrow or pain, no hearts that are bleeding and broken, no songs with a minor refrain.

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Don't make me go to bed and I'll be good

A laughing baby boy one evening in his play, disturbed the household with his noisy glee.

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A Father's Prayer

Dear God, be good to him and take his had,

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Whoopee Ti Yi Yo Little Doggies

As I was walking one morning for pleasure, I spied a cow-puncher all riding alone,

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When Jimmie Rogers Said Goodbye

There's an old guitar that's lonely, for its master's gone

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Home in Wyoming

Pale moon carry me home to the rolling clouds tonight, Please moon please don't let me stray, show me the wrong from the right,

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Prisoner at the Bar

The court was there, the jury, too, and people from afar;

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Cowboy Slim

Four Sixes

Oh, I want to go back to the Sixes, way out on the King County Ranch

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When the Bees are in the Hive

By the mill stream sits the miller's pretty daughter, and her cheeks are like the first red rose in June,

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Greenback Dollar

I don't want your greenback dollar, I don't want you silver change

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Red River Valley

From this valley they say you are going, we will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile;

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She Sleeps beneath the Daisies

I first met pretty Jennie, forget I never will, when she was picking daisies, way up on the hill.

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Little Joe the Wrangler

Little Joe, the wrangler, he'll wrangle never more, his days with the remuda they are o'er,

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Down to the Club

Last night I was out rather late, just out on the innocent spree my wife for my coming did wait, while sleeping I thought she would be.

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My Gal of the Rio Grande

There's a little girl awaiting in a cabin on the plains just a holding' down a Homestead all her own

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Beautiful Texas

You've all read of the beautiful stories, of the country far over the sea,

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Rock all our Babies to Sleep

Away from her fireside at night, Show me the lady that never would roam

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Carolina Sunshine Girl

Moon, moon, I can see you sinking low.