FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Western Verse or Worse
FC 11 F-10
64
Rolf M. Flake
Family Cows
When my dad was a kid they milked Hereford cows.
milking, cow, Herefords
Western Verse or Worse
FC 11 F-10
65
Rolf M. Flake
Ride `Em Cowboy
There ain't no horse that cannot be rode.
fall, throwed, dependable
Western Verse or Worse
FC 11 F-10
66
Rolf M. Flake
Corriente
You ask me, "What's a corriente?"
cattle, breed, rodeo, roping, steers
Western Verse or Worse
FC 11 F-10
67
Rolf M. Flake
Truth in Advertising
In this "enlightened" day we live in.
nutrition, weight, health, levis, advertise
Western Verse or Worse
FC 11 F-10
68
Rolf M. Flake
Where's the Beef?
You hear lots of noise about "chicken" these days.
chicken, food, meat, beef
Western Verse or Worse
FC 11 F-10
69
Rolf M. Flake
To Eat or Not to Eat
I was attendin' a Cattle Growers' Convention.
beef, meat, food, market
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
16
Jim Jennings
Herdin'
Moonlight on the prairie.
cattle drive, herding
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
17
Jim Jennings
Bym and Jean
Bym and Jean once spent a summer.
Wyoming, range, riding, plains, children, girls, childhood, change, aging
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
19
Jim Jennings
Packin'
Gather round me all you waddies.
packing, mules, story, tale, Rockies, Rocky Mountains, packs, trail diamond hitch, rope
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
21
Jim Jennings
Trappin'
There's a little strip of Bad Lands just across the Yellowstone.
coyotes, coyote, trapper, trapping, hunt, west, tricks, tracks, tracking, footprints
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
23
Jim Jennings
Smokey
Guess I've always sorta like you.
horse, break, mountain lion, mustang, stirrup, foot, buckskin
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
25
Jim Jennings
When He Played On His Old Guitar
Let me tell you about a boy I knew.
guitar, music, branding, show, New York, radio program
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
27
Jim Jennings
When the Sun Goes Down
When the sun goes down out in the West.
love lost, wife, lover, child, home, family, mother, father, husband, death, son
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
29
Jim Jennings
Backer in His Eye
I was working on the Ladder.
ranch, work, New Mexico, cattle, New York, car, dude, shoot, mountain lion, chewing tobacco, chew, hunting, spit in eye, cat, fifty dollars, bet
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
33
Jim Jennings
My Lost Pal
She taught school on the Western plains.
love lost, wife, woman, death, sadness, loss, longing, roaming, running away, west, teacher
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
35
Jim Jennings
Braggin'
You've read so many stories.
bragging, hunter, gun, exaggeration, fish, fishing, tall tale, youth
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
37
Jim Jennings
Little Cowboy
Today little Jim rode with me over trails.
son, father, mother, family, sadness, death, love, child, trail, love lost, memories
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
39
Jim Jennings
Old Three Toes
An old coyote sat on a hill.
coyote, wildlife, howl, traps, New house trap, trapper, track
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
41
Jim Jennings
Sunset Dreams
`Member how we used to sit here.
love lost, wife, lonely, lonesome, longing, alone
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
42
Jim Jennings
Playin' Cupid
In a group that I was guidin'.
Tetons, girl, female, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, tour guide, love lost, lover's quarrel, honeymoon, child, naming, couple
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
44
Jim Jennings
Miss You
I miss you dear from day to day.
love lost, longing, wife, missing, death
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
45
Jim Jennings
Little Jim's Wish
I wish to gosh I had a pony.
Shetland pony, child, boy, boyhood, letter, father, dad
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
47
Jim Jennings
Ice Cream
We were camped upon the Rosebud.
dip, shindig, dance, party, piano, food, eating, ice cream freezer, theft
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
49
Jim Jennings
Doc and Me
Doc is old and wise in the ways.
doctor, aging, memories, youth, physician, broken bones, hospital, health, ailment, sickness
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
51
Jim Jennings
My Nurse
Don't look down at me with those eyes.
memories, smiles, eyes, happiness, past, voice, speak, fate hospital