FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

Reach Out and Touch Somebody

I once heard of a couple.

parson, parish, telephone, humor

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

The Experts from the East

Now here's an ethnic story.

outfitter, backpacking, grizzly bear, Czech, humor

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

The Bachelor Gal

We'd been out selling in Montana.

Montana, cattle feed, selling, inheritance, humor

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

Tree of Utah

I hope that I shall never see.

cement tree, Utah, EPA, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, desert

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

The Pickup

Sir you really are in luck.

pickup, truck, bargain, selling, humor

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

The Space Shot

Today they shot a rocket up.

shot heard around the world, herd, space, rocket, humor

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

The Feed Order

Hello? Yes sir I sell feed.

veterinarian, feed, humor

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

Gobble, Gobble, Hobble

While visiting a rancher.

wooden leg, turkey, humor

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

The Vet

You know I'll bet that there's a vet.

veterinarian, Baxter Black, feed, education, humor

A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 C-22

Bob Christensen

Old Jupiter

Hey Doc, you've got to come right out.

bull, virility, humor, doctor

I Was Born in the Night, But Not Last Night

Ellie Corrigan

FC 11 C-23

C.E. Bishop

And I Smiled, By Gosh

As I walked into church last Sunday o' Lent.

snob

The Prairie Schooner and Other Poems

FC 11 D-01

Edward Everett Dale

Blind

How sad you say that I should lose my sight.

Armistice, sight, blindness, war, World War I, pilots, France

The Prairie Schooner and Other Poems

FC 11 D-01

Edward Everett Dale

To Rosalie

The years go rushing by on fleeting wings.

love, aging, togetherness, companionship

The Prairie Schooner and Other Poems

FC 11 D-01

Edward Everett Dale

My Son

I have seen some boys at seven.

parent, father, son, child, youth, hope

The Prairie Schooner and Other Poems

FC 11 D-01

Edward Everett Dale

Good-Bye

I've heard men say they want no moaning of the bar.

death, longing, friendship, mourning

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

anonymous

The Gold Seeker's Song

Take up the oxen, boys, and harness up the mules.

gold rush, Pike's Peak, Argonauts, Colorado

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

Syntax

Song for the Pike's Peaker

Ho! For Pike's Peak, where gold is found.

Pike's Peak, Colorado, gold, power, wealth

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

Lawrence N. Greenleaf

The Pike's Peakers

In `59 Pike's Peakers were a sight.

1859, Pike's Peak

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

A. O. McGrew

A Hit at the Times

Way out upon the Platte, near Pike's Peak we were told.

Pike's Peak, gold, root hog or die

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

anonymous

In the Summer of Sixty

In the summer of sixty as you very well know.

Pike's Peak, gold, fortune, gambling

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

Syntax

Soliloquy of the Returned Gold Adventurer

Been to Pike's Peak, lost all my dimes.

Pike's Peak, fortune, gold, money, poverty

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

Rupe Sherwood

Me and Prunes

So poor old Prunes has cashed in -- too bad.

gambling, card game, poker, afterlife, belief, burro, jackass, cards

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

Reverend J.J. Gibbons

The Burro

When Adam named in days of old.

burro, jackass

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

Scott Judy & "Doc" Hammond

Song

We came to Tamichi in 1880.

1880, prospecting, mining camp, winter, Colorado

Poems of the Old West: A Rocky Mountain Anthology

Levette J. Davidson

FC 11 D-02

Daisy L. Detrick

The Ol' Jinny Mine

Yep, gold's where you find it.

1882,burro, jackass, prospecting, gold, mine, Jinny Mine