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
79
Skinny Rowland
The End is The Beginning
Old friends live on in my memory, as do the days of long long ago, and as I grow older and feebler, so do those memories grow.
death, memory, religion
Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993
Skinny Rowland
FOLK COLL 11 R-49
80
Skinny Rowland
Giddyup Scout - Vamooooose!
Now just being saved from outlaws, the ranchers stood amazed, who was that unmasked Indian?, asked one as he stood and gazed.
lone ranger, tanto, hero
Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993
Skinny Rowland
FOLK COLL 11 R-49
81
Skinny Rowland
The Real Reason
I wanted to touch base much sooner, I'm really sorry for being so late, I'm not going to make up excuses, but will tell about my terrible fate.
scare, dog, chickens
Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993
Skinny Rowland
FOLK COLL 11 R-49
82
Skinny Rowland
The Choice
Now I courted this here mountain gal, for two years or more, when her old man got all upset, or more like downright sore.
shotgun, courting, father-in-law
Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993
Skinny Rowland
FOLK COLL 11 R-49
83
Skinny Rowland
Lonely Dreams
Up here in the mountains, beneath the big Montana sky, I sit here in this cabin, as the lonely hours roll by.
dreams, friendship, memory
Poetry of Skinny Rowland, Complete Works to 1993
Skinny Rowland
FOLK COLL 11 R-49
84
Skinny Rowland
Numbers Don't Figure
When making up a tally sheet, counting heads will number stock, you don't sell cattle the herd, or sell sheep by the flock.
numbers, lottery, guess
The Best of Queen Lena
Charlene Power
FOLK COLL 11 P-39
Charlene Power
n/a
A collection of Norwegian Jokes from North Dakota
The Whorehouse Bells were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
27
D. J. O'Malley
Charlie Rutledge
Another jolly cowboy has gone to meet his fate; We hope he'll find a resting place inside the Golden Gate. A good man's place is vacant on the range of XIT; We'll never find another that's liked so well as he.
death, ranch, texas
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
32
N. Howard "Jack" Thorp
Little Joe, The Wrangler
Oh, Little Joe, the wrangler, he'll wrangle never more; His days with the remuda they are o'er.
texas, death, trample
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
38
Riley Neal
The Mormon Cowboy
A story, a story, as story I'll relate Concerning Archie Barber and his unlucky slate; He lived till two and twenty, he lived a single life, When to his sad misfortune he got himself a wife.
mormon, virility, impotence
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
42
Eben E. Rexford
Billie Vanero
Billie Vanero heard them say in an Arizona town one day That a band of Apache Indians were upon the trail of death; Heard them tell of murder done, three men killed at Rocky Run.
hero, indians, ranch
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
48
Ina Sires
Cowboy Jack
He was only just a cowboy, But his heart was kind and true; He'd won the heart of a maiden With eyes of heaven's own blue.
death, love, sorrow
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
53
Riley Neal
School Ma'am On The Flat
McClellan was a cowboy of the wild and wooly west; His horses and his outfit was of the very best; He was an educated fellow, don't take him for a fool; One thing about McClellan, he was handy with his tool.
school teacher, regret, sex, marriage
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
55
Unknown
Texas Ranger's Lament
Come listen to a ranger, you kindhearted stranger, This song though a sad one, you're welcome to hear; We've fought the Comanches away from your ranches And followed them far o'er the Texas Frontier.
texas ranger, protest ballad, complaint
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
58
Unknown
The Child's Prayer
Way out in western Texas not so many years ago, Where the ranchers hated settlers worse than rattlesnakes, you know.
prayer, children, mercy, hope
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
60
Unknown
Jimmie Tucker
Oh, there was a little girl and she lived with her mother, And never on this earth was there such another.
bawdy song, cowboy, sex, disease
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
70
John A. Lomax
The Crooked Trail to Holbrook
Come all you hunky punchers that follow the bronco steer, I'll sing you a verse or two your spirits for to cheer.
cattle drive, trail, fellowship
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
74
Various
Red Light Saloon
I landed in Rawlins and nothing to do, So I took a short walk to the Red Light Saloon.
prostitute, saloon, cigar, flirting
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
77
Randolph Reynolds
Old Zebra Dun
We camp out upon the plains on the head of the Cimarron, Along came a dudish fellow and stopped to augur some. Such an educated fellow we'd seldom ever heard, He astonished all the natives with his jaw-breaking words.
dun, talent, bronco, burro
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
86
Various
The Castration of the Strawberry Roan
I was layin' round town in a house of ill fame, Laid up with a rough, tough hustlin' dame, When a hop-headed pimp with his nose full of coke Beat me outta that woman and left me stone broke.
prostitute, bronco, castration, toss
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
97
Bill Long
The Flyin' U Twister
I was a-bustin' out broncos for the old Flyin' U At forty a month and not much to do, When the boss comes around and says, "My lad, You look pretty good a-bustin' broncos that's bad.
bull, bronco busting, riding, rodeo
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
102
Curley W. Fletcher
Wild Buckaroo
I've been ridin' for cattle most all of my life; I ain't got no fam'ly and I ain't got no wife; I ain't got to kith and I ain't got no kin; I never did finish and I never did begin.
boasting, pride, prowess, sex
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
108
Curley Fletcher
The Open Book
You've been tamped full of shit about cowboys; they are known as a romantic band- Bold knights of the saddle, who round up wild cattle, and roll cigarettes with one hand.
style, cowboys, rodeo
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
118
D. J. O'Malley
The Skewbald Black
I thought one spring, just for fun, I'd see how cowpunching was done, So just as the roundup had begun I tackled the cattle king.
roundup, fall, skewbald
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing
Guy Logsdon
FOLK COLL 11 L-46
123
Unknown
The Old Black Steer
Windy Bill was a Texas lad, but he could rope, you bet. He said the steer he couldn't tie he hadn't saw him yet.
roping, style, steer