FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: New Mexico Folk-Poems, August 1920
Harriet Monroe
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260
Alice Corbin
Coplas
PUTAN ORANGE IN YOUR WINE
ORANGE, WINE, LOVE, BUFFALO-HUNTERS, CORN-MEAL, MOLASSES,LOVES, LEAVES, SCISSORS, SWEETHEART, MOURNING.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: New Mexico Folk-Poems, August 1920
Harriet Monroe
FC 11 M-12
262
Alice Corbin
Cundiyo
As I came down from Cundiyo
Cundiyo, Chimayo, black-shawled women, dying son, shawl, Padre, three women.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: New Mexico Folk-Poems, August 1920
Harriet Monroe
FC 11 M-12
263
Alice Corbin
Petrolino's Complaint
THE OLDWAYS HAVE CHANGED SINCE YOU WALKED HERE,
OLD WAYS, WALKED, HEARTS, MINDS, OLD, ELDERS, RANCHES,COLORADO, MINES, STOMACHS, SUN, PLACITAS, DUMB.
The Panther's Tail: A Saga of the Saint Vrain
FC 11 M-13
Jack C. Moomaw
The Panther's Tail: A Saga of the Saint Vrain
The Starlight shimmered cold and pale
Saint Vrain, nature, alone, mountain folk, birth, life, gun, death, kill, child, earth, God, mortal man, Old Wilson, Mary Slay, heart, Joseph, growth, maturity, education in nature, Bunce's, Stanley Hill, Mount Iroclad, rite of passage, hermit, Vesta, maiden, sweetheart, Fredrick, seasons, passage of time, Helen, white Helen, love, luna, fairyland.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
9
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Cookin' on the Old Muleshoe
Hams in the saddle and hands on the horn,
saddle, horn, hams, Muleshoe ranch, Arapahoe, cooked beef, sourdough biscuit, church wagon, coffee, slumgullion, Heifer City Coal, cook, oven, pan, Kansas City, milked.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
12
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
The Brahma Steer
It was in the old days on the plains:
plains, Rocky Mountains, deserted, Oklahoma, November day, blizzard, bullet, gun, hands, numb, horns, ice, hand,, Old Brame, killed, men.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
15
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
A Pair of Cowboy Boots
I used to drive the old freight-wagon,
old freight-wagon, El Reno, Araphone, Muleshoe Ranch, food, Kiowa, Captain Jack, well shaven, costume's, clothes, boots.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
17
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Cannin' the Dance
We was givin' a dance
dance, Araphone, gamblers, Bill Pearson, Al Creed, Judge Squires, fiddle, shoot, prairie straw, sheriff, fight.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
20
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Injun Honeymooners
Down on the Washita in 1904
Washita, prairie, thirsty, honeymooners, drink, spring, bucket, Carlisle, Indian school, woman's stockings, hungry, bowl of broth, foods, dead horse.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
23
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Bull on the Range
Seven thousand head of cattle
cattle, Muleshoe Range, pure-bred bulls, Cherokee Strip, ride, the range, wild cows, Double Scattle, Rio Grande, 88, chargin' beast, six-shooter, shaking hands, bull.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
26
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Feedin' the Ringling Lion
Some folks think cookin' ain't important,
cookin', eatin', round-ups, circus, circus animals, clowns, cooks, food, eat, animals, tent, menagerie, king Leo, ten-pound roast, John Ringling, knife, crowd, artists.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
30
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Candy Bob
To the Old-timers I'm still "Candy Bob,"
Old-timers, Candy taffy, peanut brittle, food, candy, sweet, teeth, carnival, Bill Chapel, homeless waif, millionaire, pick-pocket, rodeo, sugar, kids, best girl, kiss, rope, candy rope, Santa Claus.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
35
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Colonel of the Auction Ring
Candy-makin' was along sweet job
candy, sales, auctioneer's, colonel, art, pretty girl, Australia, sheep, coyotes, Oklahoma City, Denver, Gayborough, handkerchief, books, dime a dozen, quarter, cows.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
41
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Shootin' Quail
Got a little feathered somethin'
feathered, Westerner, fat, Frank Munson, Hades, huntin', deaf, trespassin', dozen quail, candy, sharp-shooter.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
44
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Swearin'
My language may be kinda rough,
language, mollycoddle, church, Westerner, hell, dammit, Lord, prayers, swear, lie, God, hell, Satan, Deacon Jones, evangelist, Scriptures, Parson Will, heathenish cowman, Sunday.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
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Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
The Boston Brain-Truster
Back in the Hoover days
President Hoover, Boston, oil land, Oklahoma, snowing, car, thin, hell, dammit.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
51
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Hell and Real Estate
Carlsbad Cavern, in New Mexico
Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico, hell, dark, devils, bats, real estate man, Earth, Texan, Gus Kranz, Freedom, farm, cave.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
53
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Wife Don't Like Guns
My wife has got me too dang civilized
wife, civilized, gun, rifle, Arbuckle Mountains, coyote, jail.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
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Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Political Cows
Some fellows yell like hell
fellows, hell, political tit, governor, cow, milk, University pedagogue, Gable man, Capitol, Oklahoma peanuts, Mott.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
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Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
I'll take now
You can talk all you please about romance,
talk, romance, coffins, prairie, rattlesnake, salt, bacon.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
61
Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
Oklahoma Breeze Hits Riverside
Three Hundred pounds of fog I call myself:
fog, New York, Western wind, policeman, Riverside Drive, ranch, motor bike, Broadway, Oklahoma, Times Square, Cowboy, hundred horses, coyote, prairie dogs, hawks, rattle-snakes, motor-cops, Indians, tooters, police.
Muleshoe Ballads of Oklahoma Bob
FC 11 M-16
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Marjorie Sawyer Munson & Colonel Bob Kirkbride
The Monarch of Bermuda
"I'll let you ride Strawberry Road, "said I,
Stawberry Road, ship, night club, china town, monarch of Bermuda, Irishman, Oklahoma, Captain's office, Jones, boat, overboard, deck, old cow-hand, Colonel, New York.
Up North is Down the Crick
FC 11 M-17
2
Wallace McRae
Up North Is Down The Crick
The rivers and cricks run north 'round here,
rivers, cricks, north, old country hick, up, down, city folks, divide.
Up North is Down the Crick
FC 11 M-17
4
Wallace McRae
Too Smart of Too Stupid
Millions, of billions of dollars, or tons
millions, billions, dollars, tons, rich, poor, black gold, disgust, smart, stupid.
Up North is Down the Crick
FC 11 M-17
5
Wallace McRae
The Joyride
A smoking limousine lurches and careens,
smoking limousine, lurches, careens, speeding, car, riders, drunk, frenzied load, faster, change, progress, growth.