FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
25
Badger Clark
The Bunkhouse Orchestra
Wrangle up your mouth-harps, drag your banjo out, Tune your old guitarra till she twangs right stout
Buck Ramsey's Grass: With Essays on His Life and Work
Scott Braucher and Bette Ramsey, ed.
FC 11 R-08
159
J. B. Allen
Requim for a Friend
Buck Ramsey's Grass: With Essays on His Life and Work
Scott Braucher and Bette Ramsey, ed.
FC 11 R-08
162
J. B. Allen
Tendrils
Shy and Tuffy, Fred and Tybo nursed the wounds that scarred his soul anchors set aginst the riptide of despair storms of anger and frustration surged around his battered hulk tendrils formed in friendships furnace held him there.
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
31
Rolf M. Flake
Come and Get it
When I was a kid, we always ate breakfast, dinner, and then supper. And lunch was somethin' you put in a sack.
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
33
Marie Smith
A Cowboy's Lunch
I didn't know until I married one, that cowboys don't pack a lunch, at least no respecting buckaroo would be caught dead with sandwich and punch
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
35
Nick Johnson
Dudes
We were camped just under Hawk's Rest, Me and Al and a span of Dudes
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
40
Joel Nelson
Sundown in the Cow Camp
The hoodie's washed the dishes and stacked 'em in the box
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
45
Bruce Kiskasson
The Dutch Oven
You mind that old oven so greasy and black, that we hauled in a wagon or put in a pack
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
49
Jesse Smith
Message in the Wind
As you set and look from the ridge, to the valley of green down below, you reach up and pull down yer lid, as a cool wind starts to blow.
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
53
Ed Brown
Cowdogs
Now some cowdogs have pedigrees and other claims to fame but here a cowdog gets two things: a whipping and a name.
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
60
Anonymous
Hell in Texas
The Devil in Hades we're told was chained, and there for a thousand years remained. He did not grumble nor did he groan, but determined to make a hell of his own
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
67
Leon Flick
Listen to the Sun go Down
Upon a warm September's eve, the sun was dipping low. I sat myself upon a rim, from there to watch the show.
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
71
Paul Zarzyski
The Heavyweight Champion Pie-eating' Cowboy of the West
I just ate 50 pies, started off with coconut macaroon, wedged my way through bar angel chocolate, Marlborogh, black walnut and sour cream raisin to confetti-crusted crab apple still got foom for dessert
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
77
Wallace McRae
The Branding Lunch
It's not just the hustle, the fun, or the bustle, the squalling and bawling and smoke; the sweat speckled brow, the charge of a cow; the din or the grin from a joke.
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace McMullen
FC 11 M-39
83
Wallace McRae
Give Us a Song, Ian Tyson
Write me a tune, Ian Tyson, with a beat sort of easy and slow, that will flow down each valley and canyon from Alberta to Old Mexico.
Cowboy Poetry Cookbook: Menus and Verse for Western Celebrations
Cyd McMullen and Anne Wallace
FC 11 M-39
87
Bruce Kiskaddon
When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall (excerpt)
Though you're not exactly blue, yet you don' t feel like you do in the winter, or the long hot summer days. For your feelin's and the weather, seem to sort of go together,
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
1
J.B. Allen
The Final Score
A easin' down upon the bull, and takin up the slack
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
2
J.B. Allen
The "Medicine" Keepers
A man might live and work beside the fellers 'round the wagon, and never say two words
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
3
J.B. Allen
The Cook's Tale
Sittin 'round after supper while swappin some lies, the boys spun their tales of the past, 'til cousie was asked how he come to be cook
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
6
Keith Avery
King of the World
The discussion proceeds on just where one stands for the rodeo cowboys or the common cowhands.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
7
Keith Avery
Bronc Stompers Sage Wisdom
When evesdropping dudes I oft' hear it said when cowboys buck off that they land on their head.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
8
J.W. Beeson
The Last of a Breed
As the sounds of the morning come dancin' through the darkness that's just before dawn, an old sorrel mare lifts her head in the air as a light in the bunkhouse comes on.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
11
J.W. Beeson
The Bear Trap
The old saddle was bult on a Freemont Tree with the swells a-slopin' back.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
17
Baxter Black
Legacy of the Rodeo Man
There's a hundred years of history and a hundred before that all gathered in the thinkin' goin' on beneath his hat.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
19
Curt Brummett
Brownie was a Good Sport
short story