FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
12
S. Omar Barker
The Sad Irish Cowgirl
I've trailed back here to Dublin 'way off across the sea, to seek old Irish magic that seemed to call to me.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
13
S. Omar Barker
The Duputy's Star
When you've rode to town for sparkin', but the sheriff calls you in,
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
14
S. Omar Barker
Jack Potter's Courtin'
Now young Jack Potter was a man who knowed the ways of steers, from bur-nests in their hairy tails to ticks that chawed their ears.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
15
S. Omar Barker
One Way of Proposin'
Oh, Sue was yojng and Sue was fair and Sue was slim and neat.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
15
S. Omar Barker
One Way of Proposin'
Oh, Sue was young and Sue was fair and Sue was slim and neat.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
16
S. Omar Barker
Weddin' in Texas
The wedding guests were gay that night, with josh and joke and quip,
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
17
S. Omar Barker
Mountain Ranch Wife
Gray twilight deepens into dusk, dark shadows blur rail fence and gates;
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
20
S. Omar Barker
Watchin' Em Ride
Isom Like was seventy-odd, straight in the back as a steel ramrod,
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
22
S. Omar Barker
Ranch Mother
She knows the keen of lonely winds, the sound of hoofs at night,
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
23
S. Omar Barker
Ranchman's Widow
She's got one son a doctor, and a daughter teachin' Latin.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
24
S. Omar Barker
Boy into Man
He's ridin' stick horses before he can walk; he's got a big hat by the time he can talk;
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
25
S. Omar Barker
Rangeland Voices
A blue quail's call from a rocky knoll, a friendly sound, fluted and clear.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
26
S. Omar Barker
Cowboy's Complaint
I wouldn't be a cowboy for a skink-boat full of gold!
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
27
S. Omar Barker
Cowboy Ridin'
I've rode where it's wet, I've rode where it's dry, I've rode the low country and also the high.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
28
S. Omar Barker
The One Way He's Crooked
Nobody looks yuh straighter in the eyes than a puncher with a hoss between his thighs.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
29
S. Omar Barker
Rawhide
The old-time cowboy ridin' underneath the western sky, he boarded at the wagon, and his wages wasn't hig.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
30
S. Omar Barker
Free Rider
Spurs for my heels, a pinto horse, and knee-rubbed saddle leather
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
31
S. Omar Barker
Jest Plain Ol' Cowboy!
He wears a sixgun, cusses cows, gits drunk an' raises Hades
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
32
S. Omar Barker
Buen Vaquero
I once knew a man named Jan Lucero, muy hombrote and buen vaquero.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
33
S. Omar Barker
Jaghead
The Boss has bought some ponies, an' you've drawed one in your string that's a plumb tee-total, stranger.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
34
S. Omar Barker
Namin' the Broncos
You take a ranch remuda, and the names them ponies wear have got so much variety it makes you wonder where they ever got their titles
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
35
S. Omar Barker
Daffy Days
There comes some days 'most every spring when a cowboy jest cain't do a thing
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
36
S. Omar Barker
Cowboy Cure
When a cowpuncher's spirits are saggin' so low that he thinks he ain't got no more strings to his bow;
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
37
S. Omar Barker
Old West Welcome
Upon the old-time ranches there was always table space for any cowboy stranger droppin' in.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
38
S. Omar Barker
Cowboy Cookin'
Cowboys savvy how to cook.