FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cowboy poetry and passel of western paintings
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Jake Holster
Christmas memories
If I could go home for Christmas again: help sing the songs of Silent Night goodwill towards men;
Cowboy poetry and passel of western paintings
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Jake Holster
Christmas past
Come share with me those times long past childhood days that could not last.
Cowboy poetry and passel of western paintings
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Jake Holster
The day I saw Santa Claus
It was a cold bluesterous winter, snowed piled up at my window
Cowboy poetry and passel of western paintings
Jake Holster
FC 11 H-49
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Marion K. Holster
The spirit of Christmas
The spirit of Christmas still lives n this old house, though gone its builder and gone his precious spouse
Cowboy poetry and passel of western paintings
FC 11 H-49
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Jake Holster
In memory of Tom Blasingame
This empty saddle shows respect to a cowboy who has left this land.
Cowboy poetry and passel of western paintings
Jake Holster
FC 11 H-49
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Marion K. Holster
It wasn't my turn
The weekend was such a lonely one. I was so thankful that Sunday had finally come.
Cowboy poetry and passel of western paintings
Jake Holster
FC 11 H-49
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Orville Howard
Jake
He was never in a movie or felt the bright lights of the stage nor never saw stardom or attained great heights as a sage.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
FC 11 W-36
1
Perry L. Williams
The cowboy poet
The thoughts they come from deep inside a tough old cowboy's heart he'd like to tell you how he feels but he don't know how to start
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
A matched pair
The cowboy came a ridin' up to the pearly gates. Where he ran into Saint Peter who said, "You'll have to wait."
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
Texas Red
Texas Red, he's quite a rooster who lives down at the barn.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
What's life
Life is a song and a short one at that. Don't last much longer than the tip of your hat.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
It ain't necessarily so
A man from Czechoslovakia he came to Dallas town. And asked a broke young cowboy to show him all around.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
Sure Title
It was the quest, that drove men west, their hunger to own land. If it could be found, that piece of ground, where he alone could stand.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
Toppin' out
I've topped another mountain looked down on the valley below.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
A shocking development
There is no doubt Bessie was put out cause she didn't have no feed.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
No contest
We write poems about the cowboys 'bout their bravery and their sinnin'. But you seldom hear a poem about the problem of their women!
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
Grandpa's hat
My grandpa had a favorite gun a watch, and things like that. But I think the thing he valued most was a darned old worn out hat.
6 Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
The intruder
From the celler came an odor I recognized from where I'ze at. Shore' 'nuff down where my food was stored I smelt an ol' pack rat.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
The common thread
A common thread it reaches back from when the West was new. And touches all the cowfolks in the world they passes through.
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
Memoies
She walked out through the garden gate and down a peaceful lane she said I hate to leave you but I can't come back again
Tracks in the sand: original cowboy poetry
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Perry L. Williams
The legend
The motely county buzzards they all keep a sharp eye peeled, for this two-toned lookin' pickup with a wild man at the wheel.
Tangled Up In The West
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David Haskell
Piggy Smith
The tractor cabs piled along his driveway, Mark the entrance with boneyard charm. Inside, a group of faded red buildings, The last remnants of the family pig farm.
Tangled Up In The West
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David Haskell
The Weeds Are Streetwise
Born in the Valley's sugar beet slums, Enduring the Eptam water-runs. Dodging hand-hoes and bed knives. The weeds grow up streetwise.
Tangled Up In The West
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David Haskell
The Weed Expo
Mother Nature went shopping at the Weed Expo. She had some niches she was trying to fill. And with all these genetically modified crops. Starting new infestations was a real test of skill.
Tangled Up In The West
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David Haskell
Watsonville
At Boss Farms, the amigos give Ruben a beer. To tell them the story, they always love to hear. How he caught a "Chevy" with the big John Deere.