FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Blood and Guts

Before a battle our general would always give a speech, telling us how with bayonets fixed we should charge the breech.

speech, violence, general

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

The Sailor Man

There was once a sailing man who took his veggies from a can. And after a day of sailing toil, he liked to take some olive oil.

popeye, veggies, oil

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Careful

If with a Borgia you would sup and he pours wine into your cup, it might be smart, at least I think, to tell your host that you don't drink.

caution, wine, poison

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Bad Day at the Alamo

There was grief, so much grief at the Alamo, and all the boys at the saloon were feeling mighty low.

grief, home, despair, solemnity

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Beliefs

The Chinese have a belief that I think is fine, They believe that evil spirits can't follow a crooked line.

evil spirit, drunk, line

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Doubt

Ten thousand lions led by a sheep, some wise man had said, are less to be feared than a thousand sheep with a Lion at their head.

lion, lamb, leader

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Code of the West

One day in Tacna at the Old Hanging Tree, Marshall Phinias Hoot hung Bill Du Pre. He'd shot the town lawyer, in the Alamo Saloon, who Billy's ancestry had dared impugh.

horse, theft, hanging

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Finn MacGee

Finn MacGee, a miner, was blasting holes one day, looking for the golden ore. That's how he earned his way. He'd punch a hole with heavy sledge and a drilling bit till the hole was large enough for the charge to fit.

miner, fuse, explosion

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Lester Cook

Lester Cook in his canoe one day was going across the lake when all at once into the canoe there crawled a deadly snake.

canoe, snake, swim, regret

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Manners

Close your mouth if you please when you feel you're going to sneeze.

sneeze, polite, manners

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Bayonets

While in the army I was issued a brand new bayonet, to be used at close quarters when the enemy was met.

bayonet, fighting

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Treaties

We broke the treaty solemnly made in eighteen hundred and ten, and in eighteen hundred and forty four, we went and done it again.

treaty, signing, economy, heaven

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Army Days

While in the army, I tried to get my sergeant to agree that if I didn't bother him he wouldn't bother me.

sergeant, army, bother

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

I'm pullin' KP again today, fourth time in a row.

kitchen patrol, punishment, argument, sereagnt

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

More Army

Lock and load lock and load on the firing range today, and after firing when shown my score, I heard my sergeant say

shooting, fear, army

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Short History of Hookers

"Hookers", a word to describe gals in a certain trade who sell their favors to certain buyers for which they must be paid.

hooker, girl, civil war, history

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Noah

The Bible says that Noah an ark was told to build and when completed he was told that it should be filled

bible, noah, flood, ark, whales

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Gorillas

They say the gorilla is a gentle beast or so I've read in books, but I wonder if that's true judging by his looks.

gentle, gorilla, wild

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Remedy

If you've sprained your knee and it hurts like hell, it throbs and aches and begins to swell,

pain, heal, remedy

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Bad Advice

"Go get yourself a hearing aid," my friends all said to me. "You can't hear a doggone thing, that ain't how it should be."

hearing aid, advice

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Were You Aware of Sir Thomas Crapper???

Sir Thomas Crapper Knight of the Realm. Do you know what he did? He invented the flushing toilet with the lifting lid.

crapper, knight, toilet

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Changing Times

Now the world is changing, the cold war it is done. The Berlin Wall tumbled down, two Germanys are one.

change, cold war, cia

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Religions

A crucifix on the table stood and a statue of Buddha made of wood.

religion, caution, symbol

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Short Round

If you think that life is cruel, consider the fate of the castrated mule.

frustration, castration

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

Paul Thomas Lillard

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue didn't do his job; he didn't blow his horn, he was off doing something else as the cows got into the corn.

bo peep, little boy blue, peeping