FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
39
Gerald Hausman
Marish's Night Mare
Comet tails.
nightmare, child
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
40
Gerald Hausman
Loom
Hiding myself.
leaf, weaving, weave, nature
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
41
Gerald Hausman
Burls
Maple burls like rounded knots of rope.
trees
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
42
Gerald Hausman
A Question of Pears
Why did I want to write.
writing, neighbors
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
43
Gerald Hausman
Watergods at Twelve Thousand Feet
Water craters.
rain, lake
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
44
Gerald Hausman
Balsam and Fern
Dusk, and the cat comes in.
pet, bed, sleep
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
45
Gerald Hausman
Aspen Meadows
We drink where the deer drink.
water, reflection
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
46
Gerald Hausman
Rain in August
A fireplace log.
fire, autumn
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
47
Gerald Hausman
Cherry Hill
At tamarack swamp.
eel, water, well
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
48
Gerald Hausman
Tracks
I walk on blue river ice.
odor, scent, track, human, humans
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
49
Gerald Hausman
Clearing Trails
Rain stopped us, we three.
waiting, horses, horse, weather
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
50
Gerald Hausman
Early Spring on Frog Creek Boulder
White wine and bonfire sparks.
celebration
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
51
Gerald Hausman
Spring Barnyard Poem
Two horses nibble snow.
spring, horse
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
52
Gerald Hausman
Hanna Hawkins
Cowbones shut in a root cellar.
bones, change, past, time
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
53
Gerald Hausman
Appaloosa Hail Storm
Hauled hay bales all afternoon.
haying, hail, work, weather, storm
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
13
Harold Brainerd Hersey
The Lavender Cowboy
He was only a lavender cowboy.
hero, chest hair
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
17
Harold Brainerd Hersey
They Played Poker in Them Days
Two poker fiends wuz playin'.
gambling, newcomer, innocence, greenhorn, cards, money, kid
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
55
Harold Brainerd Hersey
The Song of a Spanish Guitar
Strum te tum, ting a ling, plunk a plunk, zing!
woman, female, love triangle, knife, dagger, cut, stabbed, scar, jealousy
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
45
Harold Brainerd Hersey
John Wesley Hardin
John Hardin and John Selman earned.
sheriff, outlaw, jail, killer, killing, shoot, shot, prison, pump, pit, water, self defense, jury, shot in the back, Scarborough, empty holster, gun duel
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
37
Harold Brainerd Hersey
Chilled-Steel Custer
Custer, Chilled-Steel Custer, he wuz shot in Seventy Six.
fate, Sitting Bull, Black Hills, scout, bugle
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
25
Harold Brainerd Hersey
The "Two-Gun Roost"
There's folks what sez that women iz thuh same thuh wide world over.
woman, female, girl, marriage, wife, daughter, riding horse through door, fire, rescue
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
59
Harold Brainerd Hersey
The Ballad of a Buckaroo
Two shots that split thuh desert silence.
gun fight, shot, shoot, kill, lynching, rustler, widow, wife, settling down, husband, aging, history, past
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
69
Harold Brainerd Hersey
When Badmen Wuz Bad
In them early days shootin' a man.
gun, argument, stranger, snake, barkeep, courage, kill, killing, shot, shoot
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
77
Harold Brainerd Hersey
Honesty Bein' Thuh Best Policy
Lem Croll's a poker player.
cards, gambling, cheat, cheating, solitaire, suicide
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
81
Harold Brainerd Hersey
Under Western Stars
From thuh hurricane deck o' my pinto hoss I sees thuh evenin' bars.
night, stars, fate, west, coyote, rifle, woman, female, liberty, boss's daughter, wife, mother, child, horse thief, forgiveness, homeland, sheriff, baby