FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
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S. Omar Barker
What It Takes to Make One
Oh, I am jack of many trades, the master of but one, And folks that knows the nature of my callin', Can understand just how my work ain't never through nor done.
cowboy, occupation
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
15
S. Omar Barker
Tall Man Standing
This is a song that the night birds sing; As the phantom herds trail by.
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
16
S. Omar Barker
The Tie-Fast Man
This is the way of the tie-fast men, Where the unpenned cattle graze.
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
17
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.
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
18
S. Omar Barker
Pants Polisher
They asked me "What's a saddle?"
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
20
S. Omar Barker
Big Windies
They asked me "What's a windy?"
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
23
S. Omar Barker
Sometimes Serious
There ain't no other breed of man around the world and back; That jokes as free as cowboys do, but still it is a fact.
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
24
S. Omar Barker
Cowboy's Complaint
I wouldn't be a cowboy for a skunk-boat full of gold!
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
25
S. Omar Barker
Ol' Snoozy Schmidt
A sleepin' fool was Snoozy Schmidt, The snorin' cowboy wonder.
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes by S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)
Jodie and Bob Phillips
FC 11 B-44
26
S. Omar Barker
Code of the Cow Country
It don't take sech a lot o' laws; To keep the rangeland straight.
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
22
S. Omar Barker
Rangeland Perfume
There's something in the tang of things; That makes a feller feel; For home or for adventurings, For woe or maybe weal.
smells, odor, sagebrush, love, romance, girlfriend
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
20
S. Omar Barker
The Ballad of Tenderfoot Tate
Now hark to the ballad of Tenderfoot Tate: He come to a finish right unfortunate.
mush gizzard, death of a tenderfoot, Drag Arrow, Big Brother Club to Prevent Painin' Cattle, horned, burial, humor
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
19
S. Omar Barker
The Bronc Buster's Epitaph
Lies here where winds, sun rays an' rains; Come beatin' o'er his head, A bowleg son o' western plains, Whose name was Fork 'em Fred.
bronc-stompin', dead cowboy, bowlegged
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
18
S. Omar Barker
A Cut of Beefsteak
You've heard how spice and tea and things from out the mystic East; Are smacked with far adventure and romance, How dates are caravanned across the desert for your feast.
steak, food, beef, meat
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
17
S. Omar Barker
To a Jackrabbit
Lean, lanky son of desert sage, Gaunt galloper of mesas, Speed king of Satan's acreage, Gray ghost of twilight places.
rabbit
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
16
S. Omar Barker
His Bravest Deed
Oh, I ain't no rival to Billy the Kid; Fer slaughterin' men and fer shootin', Fer drawin' and firin' like Bill Hickok did, Or killin' to settle disputin'.
stiff standup collar, bravery
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
28
S. Omar Barker
A Trail Herd Lullaby
'Twas in the spring of Eighty-two, The Texas herds come drivin' through.
1882, cattle drive, night-herding song, grandmother, grandfather, romance, courtship, love, music, folksong and ballad, longhorn
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
30
S. Omar Barker
Preference
They's bound to be cities, they's got to be towns, With hundreds of folks to the acre.
progress, civilization, city
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
31
S. Omar Barker
Bow Legs
There's quicker ways to travel and there's softer seats, I know, Than on a lopin' cow hoss crost the plains.
bow legged, bowed legs, modes of travel, horseback riding bowlegged
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
32
S. Omar Barker
Bury Yore Guns!
Oh, along come the law in the West countree -- Shoot 'em up, pardner, and bury yore guns!
armed, rifle, sixgun, court, judge, gun
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
34
S. Omar Barker
A Puncher's Protest
They're killin' mustangs off the range to sell as feed fer chickens -- Somebody's always choppin up the West.
chicken feed, horses, horse meat, wild horses
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
35
S. Omar Barker
A Foothill Puncher's Spring Song
To songs o' spring that poets sing, Folks hanker fer to listen.
mud, tailin' up cows, tailing up cows, cattle
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
45
S. Omar Barker
A Cowpuncher Watches the Crowd
Hi, Pete! Yeah, I'm a-playin' corner post.
city folk, Tex Austin, crowd, watching people, cows
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
44
S. Omar Barker
Rangeland Sleepin'
While pillows is softer fer under yer head; Than bunch grass or ol's saddle leather, An' maybe fer sleepin' a house an' a bed; Is quite some pertection frum weather.
sleep, protection from elements, cowpuncher, slumber, bunchgrass
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
43
S. Omar Barker
"Jest Bring Me Back My Cowgirl Gal!"
The boss he's took my gal to town, Fer a fancy hat and a low-neck gown!
girlfriend, love triangle