FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
15
W. A. Ward
Envoi
Sleep, killers, sleep in Boot-hill's sod
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
16
Where did you get that hat?
Now how I came to get this hat 'tis very strange and funny
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
17
True Love
Last night I held a hand in mine, so pink and small and fine!
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
17
Sweetes' Li'l Feller
Frank L. Stanton
Sweetes' li'l feller, everybody knows; dunno what ter call 'em but he mighty lak'a rose!
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
18
Robert W. Service
My Madonna
I haled me a woman from the street, shameless, but oh, so fair!
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
19
Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
Life
We are born; we laugh; we weep; we love; we droop; we die!
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
19
L.E. Thayer
Keep your grit
Hand on! Cling on! No matter what they say
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
20
Little Annie Rooney
A winning way, a pleasant smile, dress'd so neat but quite in style
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
21
Richard Hovey
The sea gipsy
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
21
Lonesome southerner
While out for a walk I met a young wren,
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
26, 28
Down went McGinty
Sunday morning just at nine, Dan McGinty dressed so fine
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
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22, 24
Throw him down McCloskey (McCloskey's great fight)
Twas down at Dan Devitt's at the end of this street.
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
23, 25
Joe Bowers
My name is Joe Bowers; I've got a brother Ike
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
27
Duncan Campbell Scott
The end of the day
I hear the bells at eventide peal slowly one by one
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
27
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Oh, don't you remember sweet Betsy from Pike,
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
29
Grifters under the skin
There's the girl who is pretty and sweet, and the girl who is nifty and neat
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
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30, 32, 34
Sweet Marie
I've a secret in my heart, sweet Marie
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
31
But don't start anything
Tho' you have come from foreign soil, You're welcome to our shores...if you don't like it over here, then get back over there
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
33
The rosary of my years
Some reckon their age by years, some measure their life by art
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
35
E.A. Poe
The Valley of unrest
Once it smiled a silent dell where the people did not dwell
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
36
She'll be comin' round the mountain
She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
37
Bennett Foster
The last wagon
Someday when the barbed wire flings its bands like a fisherman's net on the last rangelands
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
38
Charlie Rutlage
Anthony good cowpuncher has gone to meet his fate
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
38
I'm a little prairie flower
I'm a little prairie flower growing wilder hour by hour;
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
39
Utah Carroll
Oh, kind friend, you may ask me what makes me sad and still,