FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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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

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Where Do You Go When There's No Place To Go?

Where do you go, when there's no place to go, on Bright Angel Trail? When nature calls, and there's no place at all? You know it never fails.

mules, grand canyon

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Grand Canyon Sweet

We'll build an exhibit that's easily seen, from Toroweap clear down to Valle. From brink to brink, garments pretty and pink, from Maidenform, Olga, and Bali.

bra, art, campaign, grand canyon

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

One Brick at a Time

They said that old hotel had outlived its day, so they've torn it down, and they've hauled it away.

brick, memory, hotel

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Weather or Not

A Phoenix spring is a fleeting thing, then summer swoops down like a bird, and sometimes fall doesn't come at all, and winter is only a word

heat, weather, phoenix, contest

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Blame It On You-Know-Who

There's a lake everywhere that the land is low, and you can't get home unless you row.

el nino, complain, water

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

The Cryogenic Cowboy

"Oh, bury me not, on the lone prairie." These words came low, and mournfully from an old cowpoke, then I heard him say, "Though I've got to go, I don't plan to stay."

death, burial, head

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

The Wild Man Retreat

There are things I've done that seemed downright dumb, as I made my way through life. Or even appeared to be somewhat weird, at least according to my wife.

nature, embarrassment, manhood

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

High Country Song

Sometimes by a campfire, in the country I love, with the evening breeze rising in the trees up above, I sit drinking coffee, while the sun's going down, and try to remember why I moved to town.

nature, respect, value

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

The Wild Rivers

Have you hiked the East Verde, where the water runs cool? Have you seen a trout rise from a Blue River pool?

river, valley, nature

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Toltec Truck Stop

I went rolling out of Phoenix in the boss's brand new car. I was heading down to Tucson, but I never got that far.

truck driver, patience, repair

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

Wood Smoke at Sundown

Wood smoke at sundown, riding soft on the wind, sets my mind wandering to places I've been.

memory, fire, smoke, smell

Arizona Born

FOLK COLL 11 C-62

Dean Cook

The New Cowboy's Lament

I met him on the street out in Peoria. Scarcely knew him in his jacket and his tie.

complaint, change, technology