FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Just Thinkin'

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To a Pal

Old pal, I have left you,

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Georgie Connell Sicking

To be a Top Hand

When I was a kid and doing my best to

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Snow Storm

Snow on the ground, cold wind a'blowin'

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Georgie Connell Sicking

Doctoring Worms

You have had some stormy weather

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Just a Little Feller

He was just a long-legged baby

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Old Tuff

Old Tuff was a catch dog, used where manzanita and oak brush were thick.

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No Life for a Lady

After ridin' all day in the hot summertime,

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Jim Bennett

I once knew a little old feller,

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Lightnin'

On the O.R.O.'s were the remuda is made up of each man's string,

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The Old Home Ain't the Same Place

The old home ain't the same place

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The Kid

I'm a curly wolf from Bitter Creek,

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R.C.Q.

There are so darned many initials

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Home

Out here in Nevada where the tall black sagebrush grows

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I Guess it is Religion

There is bound to be somebody somewhere

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A Few Cowboy Rules

Be patient with a green colt,

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Old Bay

Today I found a picture that I had put away,

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Remember

When the north wind blows high on the mountain, and an old cow bawls down below,

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The Barrel Racer

You've been all day round the rodeo

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Schurz

Out in old Nevada where the Walker River flows

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Jake

Catch your horse and get him saddled,

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The Lonesome Ones

God, please help the lonesome ones who walk upon your earth,

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Loco and Liquor

I've seen drouth depression and fire swept rangeland in this life of mine,

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Georgie Connell Sicking

Gamblin'

Been thinkin' 'bout Nevada with her sky so big and blue,

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Going Back

Crags and rocks and rattlesnakes

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A Time for Remembering

The wind howls round my cabin tonight, gosh, but it's gettin' cold,