FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
42
Charles Badger Clark
The Song of the Leather
When my trail stretches to the edge of the sky.
saddle, work
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
45
Charles Badger Clark
A Bad Half Hour
Wonder why I feel so restless.
restlessness, Annie Laurie, singing, night-herding, guard, memories, lost love
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
47
Charles Badger Clark
From Town
We're the children of the open and we hate the haunts o' men.
town, mail, city, rocky trail
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
50
Charles Badger Clark
A Cowboy's Prayer
Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow.
God, belief, creation, churches, gratitude, values, freedom
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
52
Charles Badger Clark
The Christmas Trail
The wind is blowin' cold down the mountain tips of snow.
Christmas, seasons
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
55
Charles Badger Clark
A Border Affair
Spanish is the lovin' tongue.
love lost, mi corazon, Mexican, sadness, memories
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
57
Charles Badger Clark
The Bunk-House Orchestra
Wrangle up your mouth-harps, drag your banjo out.
music, bunkhouse orchestra, firelight, Turkey in the Straw
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
60
Charles Badger Clark
The Outlaw
When my rope takes hold on a two-year old.
roping, outlaw steer, man, breaking horses, taming
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
62
Charles Badger Clark
The Legend of Boastful Bill
At a roundup on the Gily.
throwed, breaking horses, broncbusting, boasting
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
66
Charles Badger Clark
The Tied Maverick
Lay on the iron! the tie holds fast.
maverick, love, marriage, branded
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
68
Charles Badger Clark
A Roundup Lullaby
Desert blue and silver in the still moonshine.
night-herding, song
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
71
Charles Badger Clark
The Trail O' Love
My love was swift and slender.
love, love lost
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
74
Charles Badger Clark
Bachin'
Our lives are hid; our trails are strange.
bachelor, women, men
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
77
Charles Badger Clark
The Glory Trail
`Way high up the Mogollons.
High-Chin Bob
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
81
Charles Badger Clark
Bacon
You're salty and greasy and smoky as sin.
bacon, grub, foodways
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
83
Charles Badger Clark
The Lost Pardner
I ride alone and hate the boys I meet.
pardners, death, sadness, loss
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
86
Charles Badger Clark
God's Reserves
One time, `way back where the year marks fade.
land, west, space, progress, desert, conservation, belief, God
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
89
Charles Badger Clark
The Married Man
There's an old pard of mine that sits by his door.
longing, pity, woman, wife, child, children, home, family, nesting
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
92
Charles Badger Clark
The Old Cow Man
I rode across a valley range.
wire, fencing, nester, fences, real estate, land, progress, cowman
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
95
Charles Badger Clark
The Plainsmen
Men of the older, gentler soil.
land, freedom, love of land
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
98
Charles Badger Clark
The Westerner
My fathers sleep on the sunrise plains.
generation, equality
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
101
Charles Badger Clark
The Wind is Blowin'
My tired hawse nickers for his own home bars.
longing, love, love lost, lovers, BW
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
103
Charles Badger Clark
On Boot Hill
Up from the prairie and through the pines.
Boot Hill, dead, maverick, death
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
107
Charles Badger Clark
The Coyote
Trailing the last gleam after.
coyote, howl, night, wilderness
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
109
Charles Badger Clark
The Free Wind
I went and worked in a drippin' mine.
money, work, mining, wind, outdoors, city, settle, youth, desert, BW