FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
76
Tony Ilardi
The dead horse
The ranch boss, Jim Ryan, bought a stallion named Red.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
78
Bill Jones
Little slim
Late again, the third-grade teacher said to Little Slim.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
80
Bill Jones
The cook's revenge
Cookin' ain't no easy job, if anyone should ask.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
82
Bill Jones
The pretzel hold
There was this well-known wrestler who had won Olympic gold,
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
84
LeRoy Jones
I'm working for the governmnet
I'm working on the barn one day and going at a run.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
87
LeRoy Jones
The preacher's horse
The preacher saw this cowhand come a-walking up the lane; his saddle on his shoulder and his face was marked with pain.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
89
Don Kennington
The gas can
Bill and Sal had a little ranch, a few cows and saddle horse.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
91
Phil Kennington
The cowboy and the seagull
Now the judge he wuzn't happy when they brought the cowboy in
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
93
Phil Kennington
Rocket
Ole rocket had distemper, he was sick and wet with seat.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
94
Phil Kennington
The lost cow
Now Jed had lost his hearing and he'd also lost his cow,
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
97
Phil Kennington
A cowboy goes to town
For sixty years I'd been content. I'd never been to town.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
100
Phil Kennington
The skunk and the cowboys
At the gatherin in St. Anthony, a place my heard belongs, they're spinnin ropes and tellin jokes and singin cowboy songs
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
103
Phil Kennington
Cowboy granola
I'm a-startin this poem just the other day.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
105
Phil Kennington
Shotgun chaps
We was headin toward the home ranch, gatherin cattle every day
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
108
C. Duane Kerr
The cowboy goes to college
This cowboy got a letter from his girlfriend back in town; said she was goin' away to college, gonna earn a cap and gown.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
111
E.J. Kirchoff
Lost horse
We're there in Wilbur's stable passin of the time away
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
113
E.J. Kirchoff
Smart dogs
The talk in Wilbur's stable was of dogs that fellers had.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
115
John "Jay" Kulm
A giant four-point buck
In a meadow next to a graveled road on game department land, there stood a giant four-point buck right in the palm of my hand.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
116
Mike Logan
Cowboy cruise control
These boys, they ain't plump housebroke yet
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
119
B. Lynne McCarthy
When cowboys water-ski
Some friends of ours have got a boat, one with lots of speed.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
121
Larry McWhorter
The expert
Twas seventy-six, I think was the year on that fateful day in the spring. Jack Moreman took us, the pride of the school, to see if we'd learned anything.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
123
Larry McWhorter
Drip Coffee
On the day that I was married, a present I was given that was suposed to modernize my archaic way of livin
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
125
Scott Minor
Easy to find
Now, I've got a buddy, he lives quite a ways from town.
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
128
Wayne Nelson
Snowville
Snowville was an albino bull, a legend in his time, his pink eyes glowed like cinders, and his horns spread sharp and wide
Humorous Cowboy Poety: A Knee Slappin Gathering
Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird, editors
FC 11 H-42
131
Chip O'Brien
Skinny Evans
Now, Skinny Evans, he loved rodeo; had a hard time to find an event.