FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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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
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
79
Susan Marr Spaulding
Fate
Two shall be born, the whole wide world apart
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
81, 83
The little red
Here's a little red song to the god of guts, who dwells in palaces, brothels, huts;
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
60
Homer Bryant
Until I Die
I gazed with awe this morning still between my horse's ears and see a white-tail run. Ther's something that's upset this deer and
lion, rattlesnakes, God, master, home, guns
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
83
Robert W. Service
Unforgotten
I know a garden where the lilies gleam, and one who lingers in the sunshine there;
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
85, 87
Alice Cary
Nobility
True worth is in being, not seeming
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
86, 88,
The bowery
Oh! The night that I struck New York, I went out for a quiet walk
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
62
Ron Chappell
The "Sammon" Didn't Run
The ragin' Na-Ha river comes a frothin' to the sea, a homeward trail for steelhead trout and men "gang aft aglee." I came to see the eagle fly
dream, God, canneries, ghostly voices, whisper
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
87
Leolyn Louise Everett
Song
Love was a flower that bloomed an hour and died.
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
89, 91
Lew York
Jungle stew
Old Keno Slim was chinnin' with the kid from Tennessee
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
63
Lisa Quinlan
The Last Voice
"It was beautiful, a long time ago. The land was covered with meadows and wild flowers in all colors. They swayed together in the wind. The waters were clean and clear
sand, abuser, flawless, memories, survive
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
90, 92, 94
White wings
Sail home, as straight as an arrow, my Yacht shoots along on the rest of the sea
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
64
Lisa Quinlan
The Hawk In The Hay Field
"Ah, there you are, I was looking for you." I say as I watch him circle and hover over the windrower waiting for a frightened mouse or rabbit
perfect, powerful, levitates, gently flies, camera
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
93, 95
Eva Rose York
I shall not pass this way again
I shall not pass this way again, although it bordered be with flowers