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
39
S. Omar Barker
Canned Termaters
Them old time western cowboys mostly ate what they could git, and drank what turned up handy, but I've heard them all admit
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
40
S. Omar Barker
Come an' Git It
I've ate most ever' kind o' food ever' kind o' place.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
41
S. Omar Barker
Boars' Nest Batcher
I'm holdin' down the Boar's Nest, and a cookin' fer myself;
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
42
S. Omar Barker
Rangeland Sleepin'
While pillows is softer fer under yer head than bunch grass or ol' saddle leather,
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
43
S. Omar Barker
Rodeo Days
Ropin' of yearlin's and tyin' em' down, wrastlin' of steers so the folks from town once in their lives gits a chance fer to see wild hook 'em cowboys like you and like me.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
44
S. Omar Barker
Buckaroo's Squelch
Two buckaroos were rivals in the bronco ridin' game: ol' breezy's brag was wild and loud, ol' Rusty's mild and tame.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
45
S. Omar Barker
Agreement in Principle
When a bronco gives way to his man-throwin' itch, in Texas they say that he lets in to pitch;
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
46
S. Omar Barker
The Bronc Buster's Favorite Praise
Don't call me no star in the bron-bustin' game sech word is plumb natcherly wrong,
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
47
S. Omar Barker
The Unpardonable Sin
There's things that make a cowboy mad, and some of them are trivial.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
48
S. Omar Barker
Fireside Windies
Now cowboys 'round the fire at night, they tell it wide and high
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
49
S. Omar Barker
Bunkhouse Forum
The bunkhouse is a forum where the cowboys air their views upon most any subject that the mind of man could choose.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
50
S. Omar Barker
Cowboy Breed
You take a bunch of cowboys when the bunkhouse stove is red, their tongues will come unsnaffled an' their talk will likely spread
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
51
S. Omar Barker
Bear Ropin' Buckaroo
Now ropin' bears (says Uncle Sid) is sure a heap of fun, and a lot more gizzard thrillin' than to shot 'em with a gun.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
52
S. Omar Barker
Bunkhouse Thanksgiving
A beef roast in the oven and the hands all waitin' 'round, so they got to sorter talkin' 'bout the different things they'd found
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
53
S. Omar Barker
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer
I ain't much good at prayin', and you many not know me, Lord
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
54
S. Omar Barker
Drylander's Christmas
Four days before Christmas out on the Bar U a case of the lonesomes had hit the whole crew.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
55
S. Omar Barker
Cowboy's Resolutions
As one that's been a cowhand since the wildcats learned to spit, I've made some resolutions for the comin' year, to wit:
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
56
S. Omar Barker
Quittin' Talk
When it gits to stormin' on the trail them spells of dismal rain.
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
57
S. Omar Barker
Against the Dark
Menmake them fires against the night, for the dark must be withstood;
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
58
S. Omar Barker
Old Fence Rider
I ain't no king of saddle an I ain't no ridin' fool,
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
59
S. Omar Barker
Ride 'em Clean!
Gray hoss, black hoss, pinto, roan broncos tough as the devil's own
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
60
S. Omar Barker
The Old-Timers Talks of Retiring
Oh, I'd like to settle down in some little frontier town
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
61
S. Omar Barker
The Last Lone Trail
It ain't as if lone trails was new to me the desert's ways has been my ways
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
62
S. Omar Barker
An Old Cowhand Enters Heaven
Ol' Texas Charley lay on his bed, his hair plumb white with years,
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
63
S. Omar Barker
Into The West
Traced in the flicker of greasewood fire, the cowboy kid saw his heart's desire