FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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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

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Duncan Campbell Scott

The end of the day

I hear the bells at eventide peal slowly one by one

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

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Sweet Betsy from Pike

Oh, don't you remember sweet Betsy from Pike,

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

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Grifters under the skin

There's the girl who is pretty and sweet, and the girl who is nifty and neat

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30, 32, 34

Sweet Marie

I've a secret in my heart, sweet Marie

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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

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The rosary of my years

Some reckon their age by years, some measure their life by art

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

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E.A. Poe

The Valley of unrest

Once it smiled a silent dell where the people did not dwell

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

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She'll be comin' round the mountain

She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes

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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

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Charlie Rutlage

Anthony good cowpuncher has gone to meet his fate

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I'm a little prairie flower

I'm a little prairie flower growing wilder hour by hour;

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

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Utah Carroll

Oh, kind friend, you may ask me what makes me sad and still,

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Terry Henderson

Rattlesnakes And Tourists

I have a mountain pasture with a clear and sparking stream. It's as pretty as a picture like many artists dream. I pasture purebred cattle there.

critters, snake town, camper, snooper, summer

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Terry Henderson

Unprotected Species

"Save the wolf! Save the bears! Save the big mountain lion! Remember the ferrets!" the naturalists are cryin'. This all is quite true.

believe, habit, survivor, ejected, murder

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Katie Lee

All My Rivers Are Gone

My place was yours for a time time. You force on time a measure--live within units, segments, compartments, limits--Taking the joy and pain of today,

future, desire, clean, Twentieth Century, scoriform, stones

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Virginia Bennett

My Environmentalist Poem

While travelin' down the road, we stopped at a gas station I bought a local paper, and began to glean its information. Something really burned me up,

wisdom, outlaw, rancher, nameless, homesteaders

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Sally Bates

Public Use Of Grazing Land

Bottles, cups and plastic bags toilet paper, cans, baby diapers, cardboard box strewn by human hands. Stop signs full of bullet holes windmills torn apart cattle shot between the eyes,

recreation, destruction, cowboys, culprits, trash

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Mike Logan

Letter To Town

I'd thought I'd write you folks in town who like to eat my beef, but if the price goes up two cents are plumb prostrate with grief. You don't like poisonin' gophers

wolves, experts, snowballs, backyard, plan, bear

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

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The Texas Rangers

Come, all you Texas Rangers, wherever you may be;

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

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41. 43

Vengeance

'Twas a cold winter night on the lonely plains,

Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

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42-43

Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo! Git along little dogies!

As I was walking one morning for pleasure, I spied a cowpuncher all riding alone.

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Scott Preston

The New Migration

They escape to the central Idaho Rockies 900 miles from the main office in downtown L.A. 140 miles from the nearest major airline 14 miles from the airport three-quarters of a mile up some narrow draw

timbers, FedEx, security systems, trespasser

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Scott Preston

Richfield

In the cities the proles still dream of such wide open spaces a man might ultimately confront his true demons and evolve beyond them. These fantasies help keep the professional classes in line

preservation, homestead, dream, heatless, mortgage, wrappers, support

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44, 46, 48

In the evening by the moonlight

In de ebening by de moonlight when dis darkies work was over, we would gather round de fire till de hoe-cake it was done