FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land
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Clell Goebel Gannon
A Friend
I shall not fear the desert's reach.
fearlessness, security, strength
Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land
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Clell Goebel Gannon
Beyond The Stars
Above these sleeping plains tonight.
sky, moon, God, night
Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land
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77
Clell Goebel Gannon
Winter
I love winter so.
cold, warmth, leisure, snow
Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land
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76
Clell Goebel Gannon
Lines to an Arikara Skull
I speak to you, but empty eyes.
ancient past, silence, woman's soul, curiosity, unanswered questions, childhood, love, sin, pleasure, motherhood
Orejana Bull for Cowboys Only
FC 11 G-04
9
Gail I. Gardner
The Sierry Petes
Away up high in the Sierry Petes.
Sandy Bob, Buster Jig, tying knots, devil's tail
Orejana Bull for Cowboys Only
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10
Gail I. Gardner
Cowboy Love Song
See the sun a-coming out.
nature, beauty, warmth, affection
Orejana Bull for Cowboys Only
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11
Gail I. Gardner
The Moonshine Steer
Two cowboys left their camp one day.
still, moon shiner, gasoline, coal-oil can, alcohol, tilt the jug, drunk, drunken steer
Poems About the West
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29
Frank Goodwyn
Poems About the West
I know who it is.
alcoholic pals, booze, shame, burden, destruction, alcohol
Poems About the West
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28
Frank Goodwyn
Poems About the West
She began it on the day.
son, wife, age, loss, loneliness
Poems About the West
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27
Frank Goodwyn
Washed Dishes
The dishes are washed, the table dusted.
waiting, longing, disappointment
Poems About the West
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25
Frank Goodwyn
Yellow Gold
Yellow gold, Yellow gold.
search, panning the dirt, sacrifice, hooked, Barker's Peak, reward, luck, nature, material wealth
Poems About the West
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24
Frank Goodwyn
Twenty-Point Buck
His spread of antlers strikes the frozen branches.
grace, hunter, ice, cold, crystals
Poems About the West
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21
Frank Goodwyn
Mike's Fingers Lake
Yes, it's a mighty pretty lake to have.
Mike Sanders, lasso, California, Texans, Mexican baton, roping, dally welter, Darle vuelta, accident, Mike's Fingers Lake
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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4
Lysius Gough
Where Are They?
Fifty years and two to-day.
Gunter and Munsons Grayson, T-Anchor, Palo Duro, Great Divide, Jim Roff, Lee Boys, outlaw band, Texas, Fort Reno
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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11
Lysius Gough
No Place Like Home
Come all you young boys who long the west to see.
roaming, family, Christian parents, restlessness, travel, longing for home, homesick, wanderlust
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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13
Lysius Gough
Loco
I'll tell you this to let you know.
weed, poison, addiction, loss of senses
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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14
Lysius Gough
Where We Have Been
We will go the east.
winter, plains, storm, cold, trail, fire, experience, buffalo, Indians, Arapahoe, Cheyenne
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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17
Lysius Gough
A Lonely Trip
'Twas in February.
Palo Duro, friends, parents, childhood, homeward bound, loneliness, home
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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19
Lysius Gough
Home Again
The sun was getting low.
family, childhood, western news, return, love, Bois d'arc, welcome, changes, death, school, settling down
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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21
Lysius Gough
The Past and the Future
Once I owned a noble horse.
Brown Dick, education, schooling, Columbus, George Washington, study, college, Webster, Clay
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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23
Lysius Gough
The Red Man
The west once the of the free.
Indians, self-sufficiently, buffalo, food supply, land rights, killing, battles, fights, white man's way, reservation
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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29
Lysius Gough
Leather Lip
I rose one morning both early and bright.
bridle, saddle, jump, lazy trot, trail, mule, elephant's snout, Brown Snip, Old Antelope
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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28
Lysius Gough
Sardine
My old night horse will jump from taw.
spur, test, riding, determination
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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27
Lysius Gough
The Tierra Blanco Spring
I'll write a song that you can sing.
water, grass, May, west, heat, thirst
Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs
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Lysius Gough
Cow Punching for Health
There was a young man of some little cash.
wealth, spurs, Clubfoot, chuck wagon, herding, Parson, Carson