FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
213
Dave Stamey
New Mexico Woman
New Mexico woman, hot summer night At a bar in Las Cruces, bright neon lights When she smiled at you, you got lost inside the blue of her eyes The endless blue that you find in New Mexico skies
western, song, woman
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
215
Dave Stamey
Fence Building Blues
He's got a roll of rusty wire, a big old T-post driver He had some pride, but he don't know where it went Got a set of post hole diggers, and it's hard for him to figure How he wound up out here, building fence
fence, depression, work
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
217
Dave Stamey
The Land Where Cedars Grow
When I come from Ireland, I was but seventeen Half grown and half starved, I This country was wilder than I ever dreamed And I was full of try The land, it shone like a brand new dime Bright like a fire glows But she shone brightest when I headed west To the land where cedars grow
novel, song, caution
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
220
Dave Stamey
Custer's Ghost
Custer's ghost, standing by the river Custer's ghost, wondering what went wrong Searching all along the Greasy Grass He wonders where his darling Libby's gone
Custer, love, wandering
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
223
Dave Stamey
The Ballad of Bart McGee
Come hear the story of Bart McGee Inyo County deputy, 1873 The Chavez gang was running wild, raising hell Bart tracked 'em, but things did not go well
mule, history, song
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
226
Dave Stamey
The Blue Light Motel
At the Blue Light Motel Just off the highway Vegas is a long ways from here He listens while the wind Rattles the palm trees And dinner is crackers and beer
motel, rodeo, travel
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
229
Dave Stamey
Sell Me a Pony
Mister, could you sell me a pony to carry me home? I'm tired of being alone The winds are getting cold now, hope I ain't waiting too long Mister, can you sell me a pony to carry me home? Oh, sell me a pony to carry me home
pony, time, lost
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
232
Dave Stamey
At the Truck Stop
A wild-eyed prophet from the desert wanders in Bible verses painted on his van There's a girl in cuts-offs, hunting a ride She's got a tattoo of a flower on her hand
truck stop, travel, gas
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
235
Dave Stamey
The Ghost of Old 83
Go down that raging river river, you must travel when it's dark Half an hour before moon rise, you'll hear a meadow lark Ten miles west of the county line, when you hear the cock crow seven times Look around and you'll find you are there, you are there
ghost, train, railroad
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
238
Dave Stamey
Orange Cove Auto Repair and Smog
I been pulling wrenches eighteen years One block south of Main I got Snap-On tools, an engine hoist My days are all the same In an old tin-sided building I lease from year to year In the summer time, it sure gets hot in here
main street, auto shop, repair
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
241
Dave Stamey
Montana Homestead 1915
Dreaming of a better life for my wife and me I swallowed their promises of how it all would be And I rode their railroad train through a cloud of hope and steam But I never heard how loud the wind could scream
railroad, plains, settlers
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
244
Dave Stamey
Again
Again, I swore I'd never come back And then I find I have returned Though I know the better place is somewhere else I'm back, 'til I get burned again
airport, love, longing
The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories
Dave Stamey
FOLK COLL 11 S-76
246
Dave Stamey
Interlude: A Wedding in Lavina
John says, "It was an easy decision for me. I looked around and figured the best use of my skills was to be here, on this ranch, following a bunch of sheep around."
wedding, sheep, ranch
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
1
David Kelley
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
A seed falls, is buffeted, traveling great distances on life's wind, One of many in the unending plain, nurturing, ten-fold Godsend.
endurance, seed, flower
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
3
Darin Brookman
Gentile Knights
Buck Ramsey was a cowboy, musician, poet and historian. He had a definite opinion on most subjects and a gentle nature that made you want to hear them. In the ranks of cowboy poets and singers, he was our leader and our conscience.
cowboy, eulogy, memory
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
5
Tub and Georgeane
Untitled Letter 1
Dear Bette, We hope you'll enjoy the Christmas season; and I'm sure you'll be thinking of that last, quiet day, one you spent with Buck.
christmas, letter, memory
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
6
Tub Burnet
Buck's River
It's a land so free it makes a man feel like a getaway horse, bursting, flying into the broad whip of boundless wind and drowning happily in a sky eight times the size of most.
prairie, nature, time
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
8
John C. Dofflemyer
Untitled Letter 2
I am sure by this time you have come to know a portion of the realm of Buck's influence and the wide-felt respect which he was afforded. Many, most certainly myself, hesitate to burden either of you with the tiresome chore of reading another letter, but in light of the enclosure from my friend, Bill Yeates,
memory, national park, eulogy
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
12
Frank Waters
Mountain Dialogues
I was sorry to learn of your friend Buck Ramsey's passing. Like you said, I am sure his spirit will be in Elko with his peers. I re-read his poems in Widmark's book, Buck's pictures, and biography.
mountain, memory, essay
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
16
Art Glaser
Knowing Wyoming
Few men get to pick the way they leave or find earth waiting so free of soul -- breaking & twisting like a wet-backed pony out from under a mortal saddle.
cowboy, pony, dream
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
18
John C. Dofflemyer
April Bullfrogs
Bullfrogs saw logs at dawn, rattle cattails in fractured night dreams, in tight-eyed yawns they are every snoring father come & gone, every anxious moment put to rest, discarded in tiny piles like clothes at the mossy bank
frog, heaven, music
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
20
Virginia Bennett
Home... again
When the echo of a thousand thunders rolls across the barren plain, and I'm called beyond the silver-dusted peaks, As lightning strikes from east to west in one brilliant, unbroken chain, I will answer to One whose shadow speaks.
home, storm, sky, nature
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
22
Virginia Bennett
Grief
Folks tell you it just takes time And that all wounds will eventually heal. As if a clock were a miracle salve That could numb anything that you feel.
grief, mourning, loneliness
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
24
Virginia Bennett
Dad Was Like A Colt
Dad was like a colt to me His spirit fought to be let free.
father, colt, energy
Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit
David Kelley
FOLK COLL 11 R-47
26
J. B.
Requiem For A Friend
For twenty some odd years, Buck lived awash in a sea of alcohol, rudderless, driftin in all directions, seemingly wastin time and self.
eulogy, requiem, memory