FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Screwbean Perspective

FOLK COLL 11 B-80

103

Fin Bayles

A Cowboy's Farewell

So long now, old Buddy It's time for you to go, Just when we get our notice Is something we don't know.

eulogy, death, funeral

Screwbean Perspective

FOLK COLL 11 B-80

104

Fin Bayles

Eulogy to a Man

A Man is come at morning's hour He's blessed with strenght and young, His task's an unknown quantity His journey's just begun. His pathway's smooth, it's markings bright It gently leads downhill, What is his course, where is he bound What's there to try his will.

death, eulogy, speech

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

My Brother

He lays there by the stove lickin' places that's obscene; I guess I'll give him credit 'least he's tryna keep 'em clean.

dog, humor, brother

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Suicide

The old cowboy was an ornery cuss, he cheated, stole, and lied; he didn't have a conscience and you couldn't hurt his pride.

veteran, suicide, neighbors

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

When Old Buck Died

Benny loved his buckskin horse, and when he died, with great remorse, Ben hauled him down to the taxidermy shop. He said, "I want him looking real; one more thing, put on some wheels, and a Briggs and Stratton so he'll start and stop."

taxidermy, robot, horse

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Second Thoughts

He was all propped up on pillows, you could tell he was in pain. There were hoses hooked to bottles dripping slowly in his veins.

hospital, injury, bear

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Sands of Time

A thing that oft'times comes to mind is fierce eroding sands of time; it seems deeds, both ill and great, like rings of smoke evaporate.

contest, time, pride

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Pony Eggs

When mom told me what dad had done, silently I swore somewhere, somehow, someday I'd even up the score

eggplant, coconut, lie

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Revenge

Anonymous sources reported each day on the outlandish antics of Ed. His ultimate goal, so I've been told is to damn sure get even with Fred.

revenge, satisfaction, thief

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Two Old Hands

Well, forty some odd years ago me and Jess were salty hands; by God now boys, we really knew our stock. We could read a brand haired over, in the fog, at just a glance, and track a month-old calf 'cross solid rock.

cowhand, cattle, breed

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Forty Years of Marriage

In over forty years of marriage, there's one thing I have found that the little woman's patience can be stretched beyond its bounds.

love, marriage, patience

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Henry Stowell

Henry was my great uncle, and he was great at everything he did, in my book. He did everything from blacksmithing and making ornamental ironwork for Wells Fargo stagecoaches, to cowboy for the Sonoma Land and Cattle Company, where they trailed their cattle every year clear across California to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. He was a horse shoer, gold miner, fiddle player, and a horse trader.

storyteller, uncle, history

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

North Dakota Sweatshop & Saddle Co.

"Handcrafted panda bear bullwhips with spotted owl claws on the grip, poppers of walrus eyelids attached with a whale's lower lip.

animals, hunting, endangered

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Yuletide Greetin's

Dear Billy Bob: How's th' weather, an' yer back? Are you folks still existin' in that rat infested shack?

smoking, letter, christmas

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Mom and the Billy Goat

Once we had a bunch of goats that us kids milked and tried to raise calves on the goat milk, so our Dad could become a cattle baron. Our father worked at a ranch and wasn't home much to tend to catastrophes that are bound to arise around livestock. We had a big, stinking, mean Billy goat that was kept tied on a chain (obviously not a very good chain) and he would get loose now and then causing us all to be afraid to venture outside.

goat, chase, mother

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Act of Kindness

You remember my old partner Benny Meyers who sold his ranch and bought that little store? Well, you know they got him in a rest home now and he don't get around much anymore.

dog, kill, put down

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Missing Person

Ned went to check some heifers ...took along three bales of hay, and what shoulda took two hours drug out for several days.

missing person, husband, description

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Michael McGinty's Saloon

The men had replaced all the windows and doors in Michael McGinty's Saloon; they'd had to rebuild her from ceiling to floor, they'd been working like beavers since June.

saloon, drink, brawl

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Love Thy Neighbor

I can't emphasize enough my Father's ability to swear. He couldn't ask you to "pass the potatoes please" without inserting two or three hair-curling cuss words. It'd go something like this: "HEY! you little @#$%^!#'er, how about passin' me them &%$#@!!'n spuds?"

brother, mock, poor

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Loser School

Just as sure as there are victories, there's subjugation and defeat. When you prosper, don't get cocky 'cause there's times that you'll get beat.

loser, stress, confidence

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Leonard's Confession

Old Leonard, God bless him, was busy confessin' 'till he had the priest gasping for air; he embellished his feats as a mattress athlete and gave vivid accounts of affairs.

confession, priest, crude

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Ed in Elko

Well, Ed Brown was in his glory, each time he told a poem, and there was great anticipation, as he took the microphone. They were packed in to the rafters, every show, the critics said, in direct correlation of performances by Ed.

injury, hospital, ambulance

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Ed's Funeral

The applause that he got was deafening as Ed took center stage, A great cowboy poet - the fans seemed t'know it a rare treat in this day an' age.

funeral, poet, heart attack

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Ed's Pickup

Twenty miles south of Elko, Ed's pickup starts to jerk; It wheezed and gasped a ways and then refused to work.

truck, attack, fun

Pat Richardson, Unhobbled

FOLK COLL 11 R-50

Pat Richardson

Ed's Glasses

Ed bought a pair of glasses, and he took a lotta' pride that they darkened up out in the sun, and lightened up inside.

glasses, mustache, transitions