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
64
S. Omar Barker
To an Old Cowboy Departed (Jim Whitmore)
One more old saddle empty now, one more old cowoby gone
Cow-Gals Love Their Cowboys
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-50
65
S. Omar Barker
Outlaws
They didn't have no preacher when they laid Black Jack away, for there wasn't mucha preacher could have figgered out to say.
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
1
S. Omar Barker
Cowboy's Reverie
There's a lone night bird-a-calling, there's a low moon o'er the hill,
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
2
S. Omar Barker
The Man on Hossback
In summer or spring, boys, in winter or fall, a feller on foot, boys, ain't no man at all!
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
3
S. Omar Barker
Granger's Daughter
I spied a granger's daughter as the herd came up the trail, her paw looked raw and bony, and her ma looked g'ant and pale.
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
4
S. Omar Barker
Blue West
In the blue-sky land of the buckaroo, blue is a favorite cowboy hue.
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
5
S. Omar Barker
Love's Lasso
Oh, Cowboy Jimmy ropes today he's tall and he's tan and his eyes are gray
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
6
S. Omar Barker
The Sad Irish Cowgirl
I've trailed back here to Dublin, 'way off across the sea,
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
7
S. Omar Barker
On the Mesa Trail
Oh, a white, white horse for a red-haired lass, (and a pinto for her cowboy lover)
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
8
S. Omar Barker
Stray Cowpuncher
Ridin' ol' Bally an' a-leadin' ol' paint some things I kin do, an' some things I can't!
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
9
S. Omar Barker
Rustler Poker
A 'ridin' ol' Bally and a-leadin' ol' Dan,
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
10
S. Omar Barker
A Foothill Puncher's Spring Song
To songs o' spring that poets sing folks hanker fer to listen;
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
11
S. Omar Barker
Cow Camp at Night
A mustang snorts on a ridge-top, a coyote cries to the moon,
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
12
S. Omar Barker
Hot Ir'n!
The thumpin' sound o' hosses hoofs, the clack o' runnin' cows, the song o' loopin' lassos on the swing
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
13
S. Omar Barker
Ride 'Em Clean!
Gray hoss, black hoss, pinto, roan broncos tough as the devil's own
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
14
S. Omar Barker
Go Down to the Crossin'
Go down to the crossin' and holler to the boss!
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
15
S. Omar Barker
Tall Men Riding
This is the song that the night birds sing as they phantom herds trail by
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
16
S. Omar Barker
The Mustang Bay
His mane and tail flowed long and black, his coat was blood-red bay, free born, he roamed the Texas range in a long-gone, lusty day.
Cow Country Lyrics
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-51
17
S. Omar Barker
Cry Coyote!
Cry, coyote! Cry lonely at dawn for days of past unforgotten but gone;
Straddle the Saddle: Ballads of Courage in the Saddle
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-52
1
S. Omar Barker
Purt Near
They called him Purt Near Perkins, for unless the booger lied, he'd purt near done most everything that he had ever tried.
Straddle the Saddle: Ballads of Courage in the Saddle
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-52
2
S. Omar Barker
The Ballad of Pony Bob Haslam
Oh, swift are trains, and swifter, planes, and swift are motor cars,
Straddle the Saddle: Ballads of Courage in the Saddle
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-52
4
S. Omar Barker
Buckaroom Ballast
A rootin', tootin' son-of-a-fun was the cowhand called Joe Murchison.
Straddle the Saddle: Ballads of Courage in the Saddle
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-52
7
S. Omar Barker
A Couple of Pups
The quarrel was over a game of stud, at a trail-herd camp one night.
Straddle the Saddle: Ballads of Courage in the Saddle
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-52
9
S. Omar Barker
Breed of the Brave
The wind rode chill on the wings of snow from a sullen northeast sky,
Straddle the Saddle: Ballads of Courage in the Saddle
Jodie & Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-52
11
S. Omar Barker
The Drifter
The blizzard, it come like a white wolf pack, it stayed like a silent sorrow