FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
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T.L. Bush
Judge Horses Not Women
Now cowboys, I'll tell ya' a story. It's a sad one, but won't take very long. To say women ain't right with their thinkin', Well, pardner I tell ya', is wrong.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
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T.L. Bush
Apple Sauce
Oh! To be an apple, And hang there on that tree. I would not have to rise each day, Or chase some cow, you see.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
Gone Under
Now I know there ain't no reason Why you should listen to me down here. But these words I'm sayin' ain't for me So Lord could you lend an ear?
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
Trapped
How many times have I rode up that trail, Where the big shoppin' mall's goin' in? And right over there, where them flashing lights are, Was the Rafter "T's" big shippin' pen.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
40
T.L. Bush
Gettin' Older
Well Buckeroo you done went and done it. Beat the devil out of, one more year. I don't think it's cause he don't want you, he's just punishin' the rest of us here.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
41
T.L. Bush
"Doc" Law's Lament
"How old are you?", the doctor asked. "Forty-one.", the cowboy said. "Well lookin' at these x-rays son, I'd guessed you ten years dead."
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
Cowboy's Don't Quit
Well I graduated grade school It really weren't that tough By the time I got to Junior High I thought I'd had enough.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
46
T.L. Bush
An old cowboy was celebrating his fiftieth wedding anniversary at a party held to honor the event.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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47
T.L. Bush
A rodeo cowboy that had been on the circuit for five weeks walked into a restaurant one morning.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
Two rodeo cowboys were standing on a river bank watching the girls sunbathing on the other side.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
Two cowboys were setting in a local saloon, one was still a bachelor and the other just married long enough to see his independence was a thing of the past.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
50
T.L. Bush
A newspaper reporter drove way out to the ranch of a local cowboy who was celebrating his 99th birthday.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
One Sunday morning the preacher for a church in the heart of cattle country happened to notice a rancher in the congregation for the third Sunday in a row.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
52
T.L. Bush
A cowboy was gettin' ready to check into a hotel and he asked the manager if his dog would be allowed to stay with him.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
A bunch of cowboys were sittin' around the back door of a big building where they were getting ready for an indoor rodeo later that night.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
54
T.L. Bush
It's been said that a cowboy spends the first twenty years of his life with his mother asking him where he's goin'.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
An old cowboy was sittin' in the outhouse readin' a copy of the latest catalog.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
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T.L. Bush
A bunch of cowboys were down in Florida for a rodeo when one of them got the idea to go deep sea fishing.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
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T.L. Bush
A cowboy was getting ready to leave with his friends for a weekend of rodeos, when his wife got the idea to show just how no good a rascal he was.
Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, and Stuff
FC 11 B-65
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T.L. Bush
Just A Thought
I hope you ride just enough bad horses in your life, To really appreciate the good ones. And I hope the good ones take you safely Down the trails of life you choose to follow.
Loose Cow Party
FC 11 B-67
4
Baxter Black
Loose Cowboy
"It's for you," his darlin' told him as he lay back in the chair For a well deserved siesta. Ugh, it wasn't really fair.
Loose Cow Party
FC 11 B-67
6
Baxter Black
Springtime In The Rockies
Ah, springtime. That first hint of life beginning anew, the annual transformation, the earth taking off its long johns, shedding its skin, clearing its throat in long tubercular coughs
Loose Cow Party
FC 11 B-67
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Baxter Black
Prolapse From The Black Lagoon
It came from outta nowhere, like a prolapse in the night. Which, in fact is what it was my friends, the cow vet's scourge and plight.
Loose Cow Party
FC 11 B-67
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Baxter Black
Illinois Cowboy
"Where were you born?" The reporter asked one of my Colorado cowboy friends. "Iowa," he answered. "Iowa!" she said. "Why did you move?"
Loose Cow Party
FC 11 B-67
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Baxter Black
The Fairground
It was every fairboard's nightmare when the lightning hit the stage. 'Course, it might have been expected; it was just another page