FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Saddle Up And R-i-i-i-d-e More Cowboy Poetry
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Jim Ross
The Bard's Wife
She listens to the first draft And she listens to the last, There's a dozen in-betweeners That her judgement on she's passed.
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Jim Ross
An Incident In The Round Corral
It was on a frosty morning In the springtime long ago, That two partners, Walt and Joe, Were due to stage a cowboy show.
Saddle Up And R-i-i-i-d-e More Cowboy Poetry
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Jim Ross
A Lesson Learned--Check Both Ends
I didn't steal that fella's horse, I didn't steal a horse, I say! I just screwed out a picket pin And slowly strode away
Saddle Up And R-i-i-i-d-e More Cowboy Poetry
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Jim Ross
There Are Jeans And There Are Genes
Jeeter had on some new black jeans, Just came from the toggery store; Size he called, "Forty-two let out; They fit better than forty-four."
Saddle Up And R-i-i-i-d-e More Cowboy Poetry
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Jim Ross
A Ranch Christmas Of Long Ago
When Thanksgiving's feast was over And the snow started settlin' in We youngsters grabbed the catalogs, Choosing gifts for the toy bin.
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Jim Ross
Higher Education
The Prof was oratin', givin' us a heap On how to make money on a cow and a sheep, When up jumped a lad from out in the sticks Who wished to get in a few personal licks.
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Jim Ross
Like My Pony, It Gets Me There
Some folks tour in automobiles, While I just drive a Ford; I'll dote on it until I go To reap my just reward.
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Jim Ross
The Square And Compass
I was just a maverick drifting, My head half in the sand, When I fell in with a well marked bunch Who wore a common brand.
Saddle Up And R-i-i-i-d-e More Cowboy Poetry
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Jim Ross
Beans
That staple in the grub wagon Sure packed a mighty punch, And every cookshack in the West Stocked 'em by the bunch
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Jim Ross
The End
As you've traveled o'er these passages It's the author's fervent hope That your journey was most pleasant At an easy, gentle lope.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
Startin' Out
When you have to start out on a cold winter day, The wind blowin' cold and the sky is dull gray. You blow on the bit till you take out the frost, Then you put on the bridle and saddle yore hoss.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
Rough Hands
A rough hand is a heap of help pervidin he has sence with it. No boss wants a feller That is allus tryin' to make a good hoss buck
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
Hair Cuttin'
Mind how we used to clean up after the work was made and most of hte boys had pulled into the home ranch with the wagon?
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
Wild Dogs
During the winter of nineteen hundred there was a bunch of dogs did considerable damage to calves in the part of the country where we lived.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
11
Bill Siems, ed.
Wolves
This is not a trapper talkin'. I never coudl catch anything in a trap but a pole cat, and, come to think of it, I have pinched my fingers a time or two.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
12
Bill Siems, ed.
Reptiles
Most all fellers that has worked on the outside has a lot of rattle snake and centipede and tirantula yarns that they have told so often that they git so they believe them their selves.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
Old Time Country School Days
The kids has more fun now than they used to and has a lot more clothes and pitcher shows and things.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
The Traveling School Master
West Queensland is a funny place for an American to get into, or it was about twenty years ago when I was working there.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
It Was A Draw!
Joe Morgan and Anse Craig were turrible fellers to tell big windys and to ask fool questions, but they both made their braggs that they never told a yarn that they couldn't explain
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
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Bill Siems, ed.
The Cow Boy's Shirt Tail
There is one thing people inquire about; They ask why a cow puncher's shirt tail comes out.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
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Bill Siems, ed.
Concernin' Bill
Speakin' of Bill, the first time I ever see him is at a litlte mountain town up in Colorado when we was both a heap younger than what we are now.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
Bill's Injun Trouble
There is on Injun affair that ain't never got into print as I know of, but I know it happened because I was there and done seen it.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
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Bill Siems, ed.
Bill Meets a Funeral
Now speakin' of funerals it makesme think of one that me and Bill met up with.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
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Bill Siems, ed.
Bill Doctors the Chimleys
There was a dance at the little town hall and all was invited by the committee.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
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Bill Siems, ed.
City Folks Go Bear Huntin'
Bill and me was sent to the upper ranch in the hills to pack in some salt fer the cattle up on that fork of the creek.