FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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When Mother Goes Away

Who will tell us when we're wrong, And help us through each day

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Sister Flo

I have lived all my life, With the sins of the young

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Picture of Tomorrow

You know we're polluting our rivers, It's a legacy we leave to our kids

pollution

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Toni St. John

There is a land by the ocean, It was green as the grass on a lawn

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Dreaming

Oh, let me find a cool, quiet stream, And a boy who loves to fish

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Someday Jean

Now that you are all alone, Soft night winds cross your brow

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Life's Road

Have a Happy Birthday, And a Happy Easter, too

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Flowers

I guess I'll pick mother some flowers, The one's that so profusely grow

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Uncle Carl

Fiddle me up a tune old friend, And brighten up my day

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The Man In the Woods

There is a man, who lives by the woods, Who never turned out as folks thought he should, For he lives alone

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Jimmy's Prayer

Here in this land that begat me, I yearn for the peace of the hills

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Pathway to the Stars

Love to me is but the touch, Of your enchanting form, Your lips, your eyes, and shoulders, too

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Man With a Broken Heart

A man with a broken heart's no good

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A Little Old Teahouse

Oh, it's years since I left there but still I can see, The tears shining softly, sad tears shed for me

Japan

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Greybull Wyoming

The winter is coming once again, And my thoughts return to the streams

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The Kitten

She holds the little kitten there, Within the circle of her arm

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The Old Mother Moose

I don't suppose it means much to the traveler, That old moose that I used to see

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Peace

The peace of the child in the meadow, The courage of rams on the hill

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Lonely

Now that you're gone I'm so lonely, The mist closes in and I'm blue

love

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Give Me the Night

Give me the night's reminiscing, The rest from the day's weary toil

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Coming Home to You

Oh! Gee, but it's nice to be coming home, When I know that you'll be there

love

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I'm Lonesome Tonight

Oh, I'm lonesome tonight, as I sit here alone Without you here with me, it's a house, not a home

love

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Fingers

Why are little fingers bent And Lord, why were they ever sent

baby, eyes

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Sweetwater River

Have you ever been out in the morning, To the mines of the yellow gold

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Education

A little advice, I could give you today