FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Daddy and Home

I am dreaming tonight of an old southern town, and the best friend that I ever had,

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The Little Girl Dressed in Blue

I fell in love with a pretty little, her name I don not know,

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Old Missouri Moon

Every nite I watch the silvery moon,

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Waiting for a Train

All around the water tank, waiting for a train, a thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain.

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The Wabash Cannon Ball

From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific Shore from the Queen of Flowery Mountains to the West Bell by the shore

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Budded Roses

Little Sweetheart, we have parted, from each other we must go.

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Lullaby Yodel

My baby I know that you want me each lonely night and day,

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My Mary

I take a trip every evening, journey down memory's lane, strolling along those familiar paths, living those days again

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When I take my vacation in Heaven

When so many are taking vacations to the mountains the lakes or the sea

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How Beautiful Heaven must be

We read of a place that's called Heaven, it's made for the pure and the free

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Going Back to Texas

I started out from Texas about a year ago I started out to make myself a name

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The Old Chisholm Trail

I started up the trail October twenty-third

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The Bronco Buster

My love is a rider, wild broncos he breaks

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Billy Venero

Billy Venero heard them say, in an Arizona one day

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My Blue Eyes

Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my Blue Eyes how is sailing far over the sea

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Answer to Blue Eyes (as sung by Cowboy Slim)

Here, you say that tonight you've been dreaming of the blue eyes you once loved so dear.

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Hobo bill's Last Ride

Riding on an east bound freight train speeding through the night

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Texas Plains

I want to drink my java from an old tin can

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Bury Me Beneath the Willow

Oh my heart today is sad and lonely for the only boy I love

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I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart

I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart, I want to learn to rope and ride;

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You Will Never Miss Your Mother Until she is Gone

When I left my happy home in this wide old world to roam

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Tying the Knot in the Devil's Tail

Way up high in the Sierra Peaks where the yellow jack pines grow tall

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The Utah Trail

You ask me where I'm going so early in the morn I'm just a traveler roaming just roaming on.

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The Yodeling Cowboy

My cowboy life is so happy and free out west where the law don't bother me

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Cowboy Heaven

Tonight I'm so tired and so weary, I've been in the saddle all day;