FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Passing Through

FC 11 N-03

Howard L. Norskog

Goodby

The morning glory budding on the trellis, As I stand here close beside your garden wall

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Will You Recall

I wonder as I set here, With nothing on my mind

love, aging, memories

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Space Drive

The cosmos flickering light descends, To vapor clouds in which it bends

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Wyoming's Answer

You came to my land and raped me, You took my timber and coal

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Alice Redding

I would like to make note of her passing, Or immortalize her name in a song

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Trapping South Pass

It's winter again up on South Pass, With its ice, its snow and the cold

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

The City

Oh God, get me out of this city, and back to the mountains of home

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Repentance

I've gazed out through your iron bars, And seen the sun go down

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

The Nights

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

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

A Way to Die

Outside my tent the snow comes down, In big white flakes descends

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Twilight Blues

Sadness and blues walk in union, Hand in hand down life's highway

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Towards the Night

Just beyond the sunset within the gloom I see, The gentle one is waiting

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

To Live It All Again

As you go stumbling down life's path, There tasting of its sin

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

The Fable of the Devil Cat

In the breast of the mountains a town lays asleep, But from the past, there's a story of a gunman I've seen

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

The Paintbrush and the Sagebrush Are in Bloom

I just received a letter, from my homeland, In this city where I've been, for near four years

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

Susan

She walks with pride, down life's highway, For she will walk this way no more

Passing Through

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Howard L. Norskog

How Much You Mean

I ask the Lord to give me words, Of mountains, skies and seas

love

Rough Rhymes of Reverence

FC 11 N-05

Jimmie Nelson

Men Who Walk With God

While searching for men, other than the clergy who may walk with God

Rough Rhymes of Reverence

FC 11 N-05

Jimmie Nelson

Portrait of An Old-Time Trail Boss

One picture is worth ten thousand words, they say. I'd like to study this portrait of an old-time cowboy with you, if I may

Rough Rhymes of Reverence

FC 11 N-05

Jimmie Nelson

Frontier Duty Or The Way It Was

Working with all extenuating circumstances from the scene of the crime

Rough Rhymes of Reverence

FC 11 N-05

Jimmie Nelson

My Friend the Snake

Way up in the mountains and out on a hike, I stepped right near a rattlesnake

Rough Rhymes of Reverence

FC 11 N-05

Jimmie Nelson

My Friend the Owl

As the years went by, a wise old owl roosted in our tree and as I worked around he would call to me

Rough Rhymes of Reverence

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Jimmie Nelson

Friends

A man and a dog, both very old and grey, slept in the haystacks at night and the roads by day

Rough Rhymes of Reverence

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Jimmie Nelson

A Horse From Heaven

Nataf, our white Arabian stallion, blessed this earth with beauty, dignity and grace

Rough Rhymes of Reverence

FC 11 N-05

Jimmie Nelson

Natafson

Something very special came to our ranch one day. We found him in the barn stretched out on some hay.

horse