FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
11
Fin Bayles
The Education of a Teacher
Back in the fall of 'forty-eight A new schoolmarm hit town, She was drivin' a near new Plymouth coupe Kinda reddish brown.
teaching, revamp, culture
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
13
Fin Bayles
Fancy Grub's Just Food
Ole Hank and Joe quit the cowcamp They hung up their saddles and guns, They'd worked forty years for a little time off Turned over their outfits to their sons.
food, culture, bill
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
16
Fin Bayles
Dogtown Saturday Night
Last night at Pepito's Cantina, 'Crossed the tracks, at the edge of "Dogtown," The Mutt brothers rode on their Whippets And bought theirselves beers all around.
dancing, dogs, bar
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
20
Fin Bayles
Beware the Ripoff
I got this little bay piebald mare 'Bout seven hundred pounds. The kids used to use her regular, But now they all live in town.
sale, mare, cheat
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
21
Fin Bayles
Country Comfort
Out the back of each sturdy old ranch house Just behind some old barn on the hill, Stands a sturdy little outbuilding So unkempt, so forlorn, and so still.
truck, country, new
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
23
Fin Bayles
The Death of Juan Chacon
The eastern sky was growing light The stars were turning pale The dawn would chase the shadows From the strange but friendly trail.
herdsman, sheep, death
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
26
Fin Bayles
Sacred Turf
The movie makers had come to town Like they'd done many times before. They'd hired all the horses and extras From their headquarters in a local store.
movie, actress, drama
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
27
Fin Bayles
An Ode to Unisex
It came time for our annual vacation To go someplace 'sides the farm. With my grain I'd got most of my bills paid, Had my hay crop piled up in the barn.
hippies, gender, confusion
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
28
Fin Bayles
Everybody Bleeds Sometime
After a wild party One happy payday night, A young cowboy named Willy Woke up in a terrible fright.
blood, psychology, dead
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
30
Fin Bayles
The Walpi Tiger
In northern Arizona At a place known . as the strip, There's a special kind of cowboy, The kind that's tough to whip.
bug, exaggeration, desert
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
33
Fin Bayles
Ode to the Oyster
Now us bonafide Cowboys are kinda tough From brandin' and markin' and other crude stuff. There's dust and manure, cow slobbers and blood Ropin's some lofty, but brandin's pure crud.
seafood, rocky mountain oyster, trick
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
36
Fin Bayles
Bunkhouse Winter Night
When it's winter on the Mesa And snow's deep on the range, When nights are long and lonely And sometimes kinda strange --
winter, blizzard, story telling
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
42
Fin Bayles
Cowboy of Another Dimension
Here's the tale of a five year old Cowboy Who couldn't go with his Dad every day Sometimes he got treated just like a kid Had to stay 'round the ranch house and play.
stickhorse, child, running
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
43
Fin Bayles
Outlaw Country
The cabin was silent and lonely In a deserted glade it stood, Low eave and a crude rock chimney With log walls of rotting wood.
outlaw, cabin, skunk
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
45
Fin Bayles
Old Baldhead
Now listen all of you kiddies Don't let this news slip by, I'll tell you how you can be saved From Old Baldhead, the green blowfly.
bald, death, bug
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
46
Fin Bayles
Flora the Maverick
About the flowers of the world There's been a million poems, They brighten up the gardens, And pretty up the homes.
flower, weed, beauty
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
47
Fin Bayles
Hogs Ain't Real Bad People
One day when Mick and Toby was feelin' kinda bored They saw a Hog which had got loose a-rootin' in the yard.
pig, chase, trouble
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
49
Fin Bayles
The Wreck of the Paradise Bar
At the junction of Recapture and Bulldog creeks Near the ranch called the Falling Star, In a town that never quite got built Stood the grand ole "Paradise Bar." The object of many boasts, It's big leanto porch a-coverin' all Atop sixteen wood-lathe turned posts.
bar, destruction, flirt
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
53
Fin Bayles
Old Paperface
Here's a tale of a salty old cowhorse, In his whole life he ne're won a race. They called him old Paperface.
cowhorse, pride, bucking
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
56
Fin Bayles
My Mom
When I was born I couldn't see, And gettin' born can scary be, But who was there in bed with me? My Mom.
mother, caring, gratitude
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
58
Fin Bayles
The Day That We Fed the Boys Skunk
Me and my shackmate, Boondocks Was gettin' to feel pretty mean, We'd been mendin' fence and punchin' cows And livin' on bread and beans.
skunk, food, dinner
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
61
Fin Bayles
An Observation Regarding the Fair Sex
If there are anythings more fun than girls, I have failed to find them, and I searched diligently until the occasion of my own personal nuptials at the conclusion of my twenty-eighth year-- at which time my quest was involuntarily concluded.
in-laws, wife, women
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
62
Fin Bayles
The Burial of Billy McCabe
The snow was deep, the wind was raw As it whistled down the line, With frozen and intensive gloom Beneath the ancient pines.
burial, casket, death
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
66
Fin Bayles
The Day Me and Strawberry Fell
Old Strawb was a fair-lookin' cowhorse Bay roan with two stockins' thrown in, maybe eight years old when I knew him He as tall, too leggy, but trim.
cliff, fall, endurance
Screwbean Perspective
FOLK COLL 11 B-80
70
Fin Bayles
Learning Aids
A kind and gentle cowboy, nothing serious on his mind, Hit town a second time this year for the rodeo and wine. His cutup days were long gone by, not a wild oat left to sow, His need was leisure time and whittlin' and the local rodeo.
aids, mistake, confusion
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