FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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A Snake In The Bathtub And Other Stories

FOLK COLL 11 B-79

Curt Brummett

Cuddles Goes Blind

I hired out to a ranch in Eastern New Mexico one fall, just with fall delivery in mind. But due to the exceptional weather and the fact that I wrecked my pickup and needed more money, I decided to stay on a couple of months longer than my original plans.

prank, blind, dominoes

A Snake In The Bathtub And Other Stories

FOLK COLL 11 B-79

Curt Brummett

Rutherford the Blind Mule

One morning the weather was about as nasty and disagreeable as it could be. There was ice everywhere, a slight breeze of 30 or 80 miles per hour, overcast skies and not a hint of sunshine. The only good thing was, it had quit raining.

blind, horse, joke, well

A Snake In The Bathtub And Other Stories

FOLK COLL 11 B-79

Curt Brummett

Bifocals and Store-Bought Teeth

The year R.V. turned 46 he started going downhill, sort of like a runaway freight train.

dentist, reluctance, sad, glasses

A Snake In The Bathtub And Other Stories

FOLK COLL 11 B-79

Curt Brummett

A Bronc in the Clothesline

I've learned to patch quite a few things so's they'll work for a while, but I'm just not into complete and total repair like some of the more mechanical-minded hombres I have known.

wife, argument, clothes

A Snake In The Bathtub And Other Stories

FOLK COLL 11 B-79

Curt Brummett

Good Help is Hard to Find

Once, just before the 4th of July rodeo, I had a set of leathers go bad in a windmill in the west pasture. Normally I would have just moved some cattle around and fixed the well after the roping. But I had just put some straightened-out yearlings in there and I needed all the fresh water I could get.

dog, steer, accident

A Snake In The Bathtub And Other Stories

FOLK COLL 11 B-79

Curt Brummett

A Snake in the Bathtub

Springtime in the sandhills can be a little spooky. The mesquite and other plants take a turn for the better, and even though it's been pretty dry, everything has a green tint to it. of course, things get worse if we've had any moisture to speak of.

softball, injury, snake, shower

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Tall Tales and Treasures

Up on Stoneman Lake Road, when I was just a kid, my Dad said, "When you pass here, look around.

treasure, hidden, legend

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

The Minstrel's Song

Across a hundred campfires, on a hundred rocky trails, I've listened to their songs, and I've heard them tell their tales.

stories, winter, tales, songs

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

I Think I Saw Woody

On a windy downtown corner that the homeless call their home, I heard that old guitar playing, heard the singer's lonesome moan. He was standing on the sidewalk, and I know I could be wrong, but it sure did sound like Woody, and it sure was Woody's song.

hitchhike, musician, travel

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Granddad's Fiddle

I never heard my Grandad play his fiddle, and that's a thing that I regret today. We didn't see him much when I was growing up, 'casue Texas was some weary miles away.

fiddle, music, memory

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

A Brief History, etc

Back in 'seventeen, this land was green with the brand new irrigation,

history, emigration, farm

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

General Springs Cabin

There's a picture on my wall of the cabin where we lived, at the end of that lonesome canyon road.

cabin, vacation, memory

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Ruby's Song

In those lean and troubled times, not a dollar to their name, with love and lots of faith, she married Ken. And they often must have wondered how they'd make it through the week, but I'll bet she grew her flowers, even then.

love, memory, flowers

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

First Waltz

In the dance hall down by the rodeo grounds, the band played a waltz, long ago.

dance, waltz, mystery

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Living on 66

I heard them play that song again, a day or so ago. It used to be the theme song on our home town radio.

highway, diner, cafe, travel

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Santa Fe Main Line

We'd hear the rattle and the bang, as they first took up the slack, as she pulled out of the siding, a half mile down the track.

train, hobo, engine, freight

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Derby Day

Before Camp Verde became the thriving metropolis it is today, it was a simple place, where kids found their own amusements, such as building soapbox racers, as my brother Jim and I decided to do.

soapbox, burro, race

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Bob

Bob ran fifty head on his little shirttail spread, and took contract jobs when there were bills to pay.

memorial, cowboy, life

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

The Mustard Jar Syndrome

It all started when my patio door wouldn't open. A few monts back, I had fixed a roller by drilling holes and installing bolts in unlikely places.

salvage, patch, repair

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

The Carolers

On a weekend close to Christmas, we'd all gather late one day. I'd get Bob Garey's flatbed truck, and load it up with hay, and we'd ramble through those winter streets to houses where we knew someone was sick, or simply feeling blue.

christmas, carol, snow

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Sweet Betsy

Have you heard of Sweet Betsy, and her lover, Ike, who started out west on the Jersey Turnpike?

travel, conservation, hypocrasy

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

The New Pioneers

Whenever you meet certain folks on the street, They have a big frown on their face.

arizona, simplicity, rural

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Homesteader's Cabin

I don't know how long it's been here, standing at the forest's edge, but I played here when I was nine or ten, and even then I had the feeling that its ghosts were laid to rest, and the silence of the forest ruled again.

age, memory, rot

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Battleground Monument - Big Dry Wash

Young trooper, how'd you get here to this lonesome rocky crest? Why did you join the Army? Why did you come out west?

history, memorial, death

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Grand Canyon Line

Just standing by the tracks, with the black smoke drifting back, while the steam turns to crystal in the cold. Waiting for boarding time on the Grand Canyon Line, like they must have done a hundred years ago.

train, railroad, travel