FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
45
Kindness
When all seems dark and dreary, and grief, your heart bows down
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
48
Greg Keeler
Breakfast At The New World Cafe
Last night I dreamed I lost my cowboy hat in the ion storms of Neptune which is odd because I gave up my cowboy hat for a baseball cap years ago, and I'm not sure what an ion is.
foothills, reverse, snow, blanket, hell, rightful
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
45
Then and Now
If I were a man, said the budding youth, a wondrous man I'd be
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
47
That big rock candy mountain
On a summer day in the month of May a burly bum came hiking, down a shady lane thru sugar cane.
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
50
Greg Keeler
Excerpts From New Improved Coyote
The doctor put the tongue depressor in the coyote's mouth. "Say ahhh," siad the doctor. "Ahhh," said the coyote. A fly flew into the coyote's mouth "Ahhrrrgggg," said the coyote. "Don't worry," said the doctor.
invitation, cow pie, flies, spring, screw
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
49, 51
Henry Van Dyke
America for me
'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down among famous palaces and ciities of renown,
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
50, 52, 54
I'll take you home again Kathleen
I'll take you home again, Kathleen, across the ocean wild and wide,
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
51
Charles Potts
Environmental Impact Statement
Would it do the do-gooders any good to know that people in concentrations of more than a few hundred are an environmental disaster?
revenge, scavenger, sin, billions, care
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
51
M. A. Kidder
What became of a lie
First, somebody told it, then the room wouldn't hold it; so the busy tongue rolled it till they got it outside
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
53, 55
When the leaves begin to turn
When the leaves begin to turn, and the summer days have passed
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
55
John F. Finn, Flushing
My mother
My mother she rocked and rocked me to sleep, while the stars in the heaven through a window did peep
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
57
George L. McDermott, M.D.
The cowboy's grave
They laid him away beside the trail
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
52
Sunny Hancock
Ode To The Spotted Owl
This old world is in a turmoil in most everybody's view. Seems like we all have different notions of the things we ought to do. From balancing the budget to the price of Foreign Aid
cavegirl, wilderness, extinct, humankind, varmit
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
58, 60, 62, 64
The band played on
Matt Casey formed a social club that beat the town for style
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
54
Tom Rush
The Pro-Cow Poem
The world has got its share of ills of that there is no doubt. There's water that's not fit to drink and trash that's strewn about. But lately there has been some folks
cholesterol, fat, food, antelope, suffer, stinks, atmosphere
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
59
The old prospector
I've been in the canyon two months now, I've been in this canyon alone.
To the tune of the 'Cowboy's Dream'
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
61
Montana Cowboy
I'm a wild and wool cowboy from the wild and wooly west,
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
63
Bucking Broncho
And I'll give a peck of silve fine to the one who can ride that hoss!
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
65, 67, 69, 71
The hermit of shark tooth shoal
Oh, the north country is a hard country.
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
56
Jim Shelton
The Last Day
Somewhere back toward the East stands the statue of Liberty. The Flame of Freedom in her right hand a beacon for all to see. Somewhere out west a cowboy
favorite, environmentalism, principles, waste, claim, deceivers
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
66, 68, 70, 72,
Marguerite
Marguerite, Marguerite, my star of hope
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
73, 75, 77, 79
Thomas Hood
The Bridge of sighs
One more unfortunate weary of breath rashly importunate, gone to her death!
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
58
Anna Shelton Keithley
The Mutes Of Life
There is something sad about boarded up doorways the chains, broken windows and weed in concrete cracks farm equipment sitting idle gins out of use
tombstone, generation, nation, independent, pitiful, silence
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
76, 78, 80, 82,
When the robins nest again
I will return, he said to me; I will come back, my love, to thee;
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
59
Leon Flick
The Cowboy
He was made in the West, where a man's put to the test by the horses and tracks that he's made. And his love for the land is a thing that is grand. Life's dues have been hard,
pride, blood, constipated, forsake, stranded