FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
78
S. Omar Barker
Lonesome
Oh, there's someone I'll be missin', When the moon comes, mesa-kissin', Out o' twilight hills that tender way it knows.
love lost, lover, girlfriend, riding range
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
79
S. Omar Barker
The Sheep Beezness!
"I'm tell j'you what, thees sheeps beezness," Thus spoke Borrego Joe, "Eettake wise feller like myself, For savvy make heem go!"
thief, steal, ethnic
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
80
S. Omar Barker
When Sunset Slim Rode Satan
Oh, Sunset Slim he rides today, On sorrel Satan, so they say.
girlfriend, marriage, jealousy, broncriding, bronco, bronc busting
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
81
S. Omar Barker
The Anti-Globe Trotter
They tell me there's sport on the sunny south sea, A-fishin' fer sharks, barracuda, Fer sand-dabs or whales, but its lure ain't fer me.
cowcamp, remuda, cattle punching, range, tending cows
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
82
S. Omar Barker
The Bad Hombre's One Virtue
I guess there's many a kinder careless deed, I'm charged with on the Record Book -- Me with my cowboy blood unpedigreed, And never carin' how I look.
afterlife, cowboy heaven, soreness, horse
Buckaroo Ballads
FC 11 B-04
83
S. Omar Barker
The Trail to Town
The trail us punchers foller from the ranch into town, They say is uphill goin' in, while comin' back it's down.
love, girlfriend, uphill, downhill, kiss
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
7
Baxter Black
Inaugural Column - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
8
Baxter Black
Scrap Iron - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
10
Baxter Black
White Oaks Rodeo - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
11
Baxter Black
It's A Small World - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
12
Baxter Black
The New Hat
Yesterday I went to buy myself a brand new hat.
hat, clothing, brim, crown, lesson, learning, education, humor, selling, sales, modern times, Bailey, Bulldoggers, bulldogging
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
13
Baxter Black
Jekyll & Hide Cattle Company
He's kind to his wife when the market goes up.
humor, Jekyll and Hyde, Jekyll and Hide, cattle market
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
14
Baxter Black
Snappin' Bees - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
16
Baxter Black
Ecolastic Monetary Catability - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
17
Baxter Black
The Pore Chicken - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
18
Baxter Black
He was OK Yesterday...Then Bingo
"Doc, I called you just as soon.
Buck, Doctor Bell, garlic, mane, horse, Copenhagen, chewing tobacco, catfish bait, sickness, Larramycin, saurkraut, sourkraut, turpentine, folk remedies, medicine, treatment, folk remedy
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
20
Baxter Black
That Good ol' Red Rock Salt
It's May and I'm out packin' rock salt.
humor, cows, cow lick, licking, salt block, work, occupational lore, occupation
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
21
Baxter Black
Donatin': Rodeo Style
There's a piece of little finger on a fence out in Cheyenne.
Donating Rodeo Style, humor, body parts, skin, injuries, hurt, injury
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
22
Baxter Black
Phobias - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
23
Baxter Black
Five Flat - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
24
Baxter Black
Wanted: Cowboy - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
26
Baxter Black
A Rider, A Roper and a Hell'uva Windmill Man
Have you ever been out checkin' cows and makin' windmill rounds.
snow, weather, wind, drifts, storm, sheared pin, water tank, ice, sucker rod, vane, water, pump, pumping
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
27
Baxter Black
We Choose to be Here - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
28
Baxter Black
The Packer Buyer - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
29
Baxter Black
Eat American Lamb
The sheepman's got a problem now.
market, market value, price, back to nature advocates, polyester, saccharine, food stamps, credit cards, coyotes, mutton, Australia, BLM, B.L.M., Sierra Club, diplomats, politics, meat, forest service, lamb, canned meat, prices