FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
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Griff Crawford
Give me the West
Give me the roll of a broncho's lope, the swing of the open way
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Sweet Genevieve
O, Genevieve I'd give the world to live again the lovely past!
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Rega Kramer McCarty
Time
Twenty-four hours of time each day, and yours the power to direct it.
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7
Claribel Weeks Avery
Fulfillment
This is the thought that makes me proud and glad, my children have the things I wanted.
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My gal is a high born lady
Thar is gwine to be a festival this evenin' and a gatherin' of color mighty rare
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Samuel Minturn Peck
Swinging in the grapevine swing
When I was a boy on the old plantation, down by the deep bayou,
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
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Daisy Bell
There is a flower within my heart, Daisy, Daisy!
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George L. McDermott
The Canyon
Those giant walls of pictured rock, have filled my heart with wonder;
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The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
I've just got here, thro' Paris, from the sunny southern shore, I to Monte Carlo went, just to raise my winter's rent.
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Richard LE Gallienne Song
She's somewhere in the sunlight strong, her tears are falling in the rain,
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I'll remember you, love, in my prayers
When the curtains of night are pinned back by the starts, and the beautiful moon sweeps the sky
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Her eyes don't shine like diamonds: Three little lads love-story
Three little lads were seated one day, and their love stories did tell, Tom told of Kitty, who was so pretty
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Ballade of Boot-hill
In silent tombs the killers sleep on naked, sun-burnt desert land
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W. A. Ward
Envoi
Sleep, killers, sleep in Boot-hill's sod
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Where did you get that hat?
Now how I came to get this hat 'tis very strange and funny
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True Love
Last night I held a hand in mine, so pink and small and fine!
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Sweetes' Li'l Feller
Frank L. Stanton
Sweetes' li'l feller, everybody knows; dunno what ter call 'em but he mighty lak'a rose!
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Robert W. Service
My Madonna
I haled me a woman from the street, shameless, but oh, so fair!
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Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
Life
We are born; we laugh; we weep; we love; we droop; we die!
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
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L.E. Thayer
Keep your grit
Hand on! Cling on! No matter what they say
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Little Annie Rooney
A winning way, a pleasant smile, dress'd so neat but quite in style
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Richard Hovey
The sea gipsy
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay
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Lonesome southerner
While out for a walk I met a young wren,
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Down went McGinty
Sunday morning just at nine, Dan McGinty dressed so fine
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Throw him down McCloskey (McCloskey's great fight)
Twas down at Dan Devitt's at the end of this street.