FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

The Lingo of our Callin'

Now, let's say that you had rowed up where the cow trails all is paved So the lingo of our callin' warn't too clear.

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

"I Knowed Old Charlie Well"

Time was when every old timer When storying-up a spell

Russell, picture, lied,

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

Fourth of July

The Fourth of July, in memory's eye, Conjures ice cream all ready to freeze

rodeo, fire works,

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

Coffee

The feller who invented coffee rates pretty high in my book.

sipping, drinking

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

I Knowed Old Charlie Well

Time was when every old timer

Charlie Russell, Charles, artist, lying, lie

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

The Lingo of Our Callin'

Now, let's say that you had growed up where the cow trails all is paved

language, words, culture

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

The Still

By a seepy spring in a dugout

whiskey, bootleg, moonshine, booze

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

Commuted Sentence

Now there's got to be a reason

snake, rattlesnake

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

A Cost-return Analysis

I gave a calf a three-way blackleg shot

animal husbandry, veterinary, drowning, cows, economics

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

Broke, Afoot and Old

He'd prob'ly heeled ten thousand calves

cowboy, occupational lore, aging, memory, memories

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

An Ounce of Prevention

Eggs'll give you fatty heart.

food, eating, health

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

On Catastrophe

The calves got coccidiosis?

mice, mouse, grief, trouble, wife, spouse

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

I Quest of the Festive Bough

It's getting down deep in December

Christmas tree, woods, holidays, celebration, custom

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

Me and the Hippie on the Greyhound Bus

What sign was you born underneath?

signs, zodiac, birth, brands, culture, differences, language, conversation, square, words

Up North is Down the Crick

FC 11 M-17

Wallace McRae

My Requiem

Some leave their mark on a branded hide

memory, aging, death, memories, remembrance

Buckaroos in Paradise: Cowboy Life in Northern Nevada

FC 11 M-18

Howard W. Marshall

not poetry