FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Screwbean Perspective

FOLK COLL 11 B-80

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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