FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Old Smeller

Now I lay me down to sleep, beside this big old hairy creep. If he should die before I wake, I'd take it as a lucky break.

smell, disgust, gross

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Mountain Funeral

Once there was a mountain man, he was nearly eight feet tall, three hundred pounds of solid man, with little fat at all.

mountain, funeral, frozen

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Companions

Now his shoulders sagged beneath his pack, he never raised his eyes, as he shuffled down the railroad track, and stared down at the ties.

friendship, dog, loneliness

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Jilted

Now a long long time ago, back early in my life, I once came almighty close, to taking on a wife. I had on my tux and tophat, and white spats on my shoes, and was walking to the church, where we'd exchange "I do's."

insult, wedding, suicide

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

A Real Friend

When hard times come and things get rough, a dog won't up and leave you, nor will he lie or cheat or steal, or endeavor to deceive you.

friendship, dog, loyalty

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

The Coffee Pot

Now up here in the mountains, it is just as like as not, if the heater stove is burning, the coffee pot is hot.

coffee, morning, waking

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Evening in the Morning

The sun is sinking out of sight, as another day goes by, stars begin to claim that space, in the big Montana sky.

evening, rest, gratitude

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Live Your Life For You

If your life's become a drag, and is filled with sad despair, if you feel that just existing, is a burden you must bear.

depression, bills, needs

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

My Old Model T & Me

Now there was a glib tongued peddler, who dealt in Model T's, and surely was took in by him, and those words of speed and ease.

horse, buggy, car

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Running Scared

Now my wife she says to me, "there's a long and creepy thing, laying up there on that rock, right next to the spring.

rattlesnake, gun, miss

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

A Quick Way to Learn

Now Mom she used to whip us, when at some mischief we were caught, but she'd lay it on much easier, if we yelled an screaming a lot.

learning, mother, father

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

The Road to Town

Now that old road out to the ranch, it needs a little repair, it has some ruts along the way, and a pothole here and there.

road, travel, use

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

North Dakota Fire

Now North Dakota had a library, a thing of pride it was indeed, and they kept it open all day long, in case someone learned to read.

fire, library, forest

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Old Pete the Poacher

Now he had trout for breakfast, darn near the whole year through, and he ate a lot of antelope, and deer and elk meat too.

poacher, hunter, prey

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Alaska No More

Now Alaska is the place to go, or so once I heard it said, so I up and left Montana, to live up there instead.

alaska, memory, bar

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

One Final Cure

Now this doctor had went on for years, giving out potions and pills, for thousands of sore aches and pains, and much more elaborate ills.

cure, medicine, money

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

The Perfect Breed

We hear a lot on Pitbull dogs, and al about the Terrier, than some prefer the Doberman, or Collie which is hairier.

dog, breed, mongrel

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

It All Adds Up

Now there was a gunslinger, a real humdinger, who liked to show off his skills, but he was finally shot down, in this small western town, by a lad who came down from the hills.

gunslinger, gun, puppy

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

So Far and Yet So Near

Now us old dudes have special thoughts, as we sit and rock and dream, when family cars were Model T's, and locomotives ran on steam.

rocking chair, bedtime, dream

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Bedbugs

I came across this cabin, miles back in some wooded hills, so tired I could have slept, on a bed of porcupine quills.

bedbug, attack, fear

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Watchdog

Now I thought it might be pretty nice, to have a watchdog on the place, and though I'd never lost a thing, I up and bought one just in case.

watchdog, confusion, training

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

A Bear Story

Now I have always been a clam one, and I've never been afraid, for I always pack a muzzle loader, and a knife with a ten inch blade.

hunt, bear, chase

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Old Lonesome Joe

Now he was called "Old Lonesome Joe," and he lived a long way back in a place called Lonesome Valley, in his little one room shack,

wife, lonely, crutches

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Old Truthful Dan

Now old "Truthful" Dan he told me tales, and I'd really listen well, to those fascinating tales he told, as these stories he would tell.

tall tales, business, truth

Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993

Skinny Rowland

FOLK COLL 11 R-49

Skinny Rowland

Winning a Wife

Now this here is the story, of how I took the beauty of the west, I won't talk about my brains and looks, just about the rest.

marriage, wife, struggle