FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Willard Hollopeter

About achin' and about breakin', about good horses and bad rides, about yearnin' and about learnin', and they talk about cowboy pride. (from "Cowboy Poetry Gathering"). When you're sortin' cattle, use some restraint when your sweetie is helpin', or you'll find she ain't. (untitled).

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Linda Hasselstrom

We all need a windbreak. (from "Windbreak: A Woman Rnahcer"). You can never tell what a bobtail cow will do. (from "Handbook to Ranching"). My family is darkness before the flickering fire, the cow calving in the barn. (from "First Nigh Alone on the Ranch").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Bob Ross

Lonesome and homesick he sat there with a twig of brush in his hand. His fingers shook and his nostrils quivered but the look on his face was bland. (from "Lure of the Sagebrush"). Have you ever thought as you topped the ridge and looked down in the valley below how it looked and just what it was like a hundred years ago? (from "Centennial Tribute").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Georgie Sicking

When shoeing a horse, don't leave the shoes long, or you might not live to find you was wrong. (from "A Few Cowboy Rules"). It was sometimes kind of awkward for a girl or nine or ten-- to be the only cowgirl among a bunch of men. (from "Jake").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Scott Redington

I'd like to be one flashy cowboy that's the life for which I yearn, but I'm too busy raising cattle, and I ain't had time to learn. (from "Oh To Be a Cowboy"). Then you take your turn as night rider still 'neath a star blanket of white, and a coyote speaks out in the distance, "What's the poor folks doin' tonight?" (from "Reflections on Riches").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Gary McMahan

If you don't smoke, drink or chase wimmen or dabble in sinful endeavor, you'll probably live a long time, in fact, it might seem like...forever. (from "Forever").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Tom Eaton

The sun goes down, the hills turn silhouette and I ride a trail that's called regret. (from "Silhouette").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Rod Nelson

So I go to see the "missus", I tell her, "Honey, you're beautiful, and would you have a minute, dear, I seem to need a pull." (from "Gettin' Started"). So what if I'm broke and don't have a red cent, money blowed on a bronc ride is money well spent! (from "The Rodeo Trip").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Jesse Smith

Well, I hada taken off my chaps, but I still had on my spurs, so I take myself another snort and chased it down with Coors. (from "Three Wheeler"). That hoss's readin' a message that's been sent to him in the breeze. You feel your gut start to tighten, and a'shakin' comes into yer knees. (from "Message in the Wind").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Jesse Smith

But cowboy ingenuity that's a blessin' of the trade. As long as a cowboy has that, he'll always have it made. (from "Anniversary Calf"). And he'll work from his saddle as he wages the battle you might not think anybody could win. But come early daylight, he'll jerk his latigo tight, and he'll do it all over again. (from "The Cowboy").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Echo Klaproth

The land laid like a day-old beard- dark stubble stuck out, sparse, mixed with yesterday's growth. (from "The Road North"). He took that like a slam to the midriff you know, masculinity threatened his impatience foretold the pace of the day when he charmingly said, "This'll work if you simply do what you're told!" (from "Shouldn't We Go to the House for a Horse?).

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Tick Jameson

Now I have no kick on your singing, you have that part down fine; But the question I'd be asking, are your quarters calloused like mine? (from "Are You a Hand?"). Have you ever dozed on day herd and with satisfaction gazed, as in the valley spread before you a thousand beef steers grazed? (from "Are You a Hand?")

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Jody Strand

Now it's time for you to move again, and reluctantly, you'll go. But part of you will stay behind to watch your garden grow. (from "The Hired Man's Wife").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Joel Eliot

...Ol' horse it's your and me again as through the sage we ride two kindred souls together beneath that winter sky. (from "Wyoming Wind").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Zeb Dennis

When that buckin' began the sky welcomed the sun that shined on the ride we made. (from "The Old Cowboy"). It made me smile to ride you, the fancy way you'd cut and spin. Seems like wherever we went, Roanie, you made me proud of where we been. (from "Roanie").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Bob Christensen

If a wise man had to travel, would he really ride a camel? Where's the horse? (from "Where's the Horse?"). It had been two days since breakfast so I'm thinking of a steak and some Jose Cuervo just to wash it down. (from "Something New").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Glenn Ohrlin

That's me on "Star" about 1964; Star turned white in old age. (from "Star").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Jill Jones

The school of life at times is hard but if you learn to drop your guard it's the bravest thing a man can ever do. (from "Graduation").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Curly Musgrave

There's a faint and friendly trave of him that I remember yet up in the satin liner stained by brilliantine and sweat. (from "My Daddy's Hat").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Leon Flick

But what I thought, and what I got, had different magnitude. (from "Satan & Jude"). And I can promise one thing, you'll smile instead of frown if you close your eyes and open your ears and listen to the sun go down. (from "Listen to the Sun Go Down").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Ian Tyson

May your ponies stay sound for the work to be done they'll get you home with your dreams and scars. (from "'Til the Circle is Through").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Hank Real Bird

In response to the question, "Where are you from?" "I come from the right side of the horse!" (untitled). Makes you want to live until you die. (untitled).

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Kent Stockton

The price we pay for lifestyle with which none can compare is measured not in dollars, but in soul. (from "Loss"). But every cowboy knows what "stiff" is, an' you ain't got it yet-- the ultimate in stiffness is your McCarty cold an' wet. (from "Stiff").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Kent Stockton

To make a hand's my fondest dream but if I may be candid; that houlihan ain't in my scheme-- it cain't be throwed left-handed. (from "The Houlihan"). Those moments just before the dusk inspire a man to rhyme-- the favorite time for all of us is the day's long shadows time. (from "The Long Shadows Time").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Frank Gleeson

"What time will you be home tonight?" he heard his sweetheart yell. H e smiled and waved as he rode out, "When I get back to the corral." (from "Goodbye to Sweetheart"). Now a saddle horse and an old cow dog will bless a cowboy's life 'cause sometimes, when you're miles from home, it's hard to keep a wife. (from "Partners Forever").