FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
8
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Why Jane Left Ted
I'm sure you've seen the tabloids ...don't believe a thing they've said; I think I know the real scoop as to just why Jane left Ted.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
11
Yvonne Hollenbeck
The Corner Grocery Store
They say she almost crumbled when he told her he was through;; he wanted to be free again...he'd found somebody new.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
12
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Snakes
Suppose you were to hear someone say, "We are going snake hunting this afternoon. Want to go along?" Would you think they were planning some jungle expedition?
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
14
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Queen Of The Cow Towns
Out in Western South Dakota on the North edge of the hills lies a bit of paradies there on the plain. It's a pretty town named "Spearfish," born in 1876, and it seemed that every cowman praised her name.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
16
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Geezers
Father Time and Mother Nature are an unrelenting pair; they give you constant aches and pains and take your teeth and hair.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
17
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Poor Old Geezer Dames
I blame old Mother Nature for the shape my body's in; I must have ticker her off sometime and vengeance is her friend.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
18
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Gool Old Days
I wonder who the person is that one time termed the phrase, "that life begins at fifty, thus begins the good old days."
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
19
Yvonne Hollenbeck
While-Yer-At-It
The first year I was "honey" until the baby came, the twenty years that followed he used "mama" for my name. Now he calls me "granny" and I do my level best to not let on it bothers me and something I detest.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
21
Yvonne Hollenbeck
That Old Felt Hat
There's a hat rack made of antlers that he'd found out on the range, it's on the back porch wall there by the door; and on it hangs an old felt hat, he hung it there one day, and then he never wore it anymore.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
23
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Ranchwife In The Making
Poor Jaydn doesn't know it, but he was born here to the land; perhaps that's why she's called on when they need another hand.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
24
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Truth In Advertising
She was lonely in the city with a life she'd learn to hate and thought that it would help if she could find herself a mate.
From My Window and Other Poems
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27
Yvonne Hollenbeck
That Old Home Comfort Range
Did Grandma ever tell you about that old cast iron range that's out there in the trees behind the shed? It used to be her cook stove in her kitchen on the ranch; I'll bet it baked a million loaves of bread.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
29
Yvonne Hollenbeck
A Buffalo Flats Lady
Your contest now is past and done and we suppose that you had heaps of fun. But we think it was a dirty trick to put us in that limerick.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
30
Yvonne Hollenbeck
How To Cut Taxes
Dear President Bush, There are aliens here by the millions ...illegal, and they're all around; the Border Patrol is out searching but hardly a one's ever found.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
32
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Why His Ears Are Swollen
He criticized my cookin' didn't care for what I'd bake, and wished I'd fix him biscuits like his mama used to make.
From My Window and Other Poems
FC 11 H-48
33
Yvonne Hollenbeck
What I Really Need's A Wife
I've got so danged much stuff to do, I work from sun to sun, got a great big yard to care for and the housework's needing done.
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
FC 11 H-53
6
Jim Hoobler
Cow Foreplay (From a bull's point of view)
I think I'll go see the ladies today, said the rank ole Hereford bull
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
FC 11 H-53
8
Jim Hoobler
Cowboy Rap
My name is Jimmy and I'm here to say I've come before ya to recite some poetry
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
FC 11 H-53
Jim Hoobler
Dreamin' about special friends
It gets mightly lonesome out here, on cold nights ridin' the range, checkin' those first calf heifers, and dreamin' of dancin' with dames.
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
FC 11 H-53
12
Jim Hoobler
My beauty
My darling Virginia you look so divine with your two buck teeth and that great big behind
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
FC 11 H-53
14
Jim Hoobler
Lazy LeRoy
The art of being lazy is not an easy task
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
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16
Jim Hoobler
She was only a cowboy's daughtger
She was only a cowboy's daughter, as sweet as she could be, why the first time I met her, she batted her eyes at me.
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
FC 11 H-53
18
Jim Hoobler
Doc made a mistake
I once had an old hereford cow as most poor cowbys do, so I showed her to my veterinarian and asked ole doc if he had a clue
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
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20
Jim Hoobler
Grandpa's John Deere B
The auctioneer chanted, as he sold the last of the hay, it was just another farm sale, that warm September day.
Cow Foreplay (from a bull's point of view)
FC 11 H-53
22
Jim Hoobler
The Thompson boys' last ride
The Thompson boys were notorious cowboys, the three stooges of the old west, no matter what they tried in life, it came out second best.