FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

No Telephone in Heaven

"I'm sorry, child, I'm busy,"

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee

At the roundup out in Pendleton, when I was just a boy,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Pride of the Prairie

She lived away out on the prairie,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Put My Little Shoes Away

Come and bathe my forehead, mother,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

The Reno Girl

I met a girl in Reno

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Roll Out Cowboy

The cowhand's life is a dreary, dreary life,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Ridin' for the Valley of the Moon

There's a little gal a waitin' back on the old home ranch,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Silver State Stampede

Say, pard, we'd like to see you at our big rodeo,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Somebody's Waiting For You

By the side of a brook, in a cool shady nook,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Stagolee Blues

Big Stag had been a drinkin', was in an ugly mood

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

FC 11 T-13

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Ten Thousand Cattle

TEN THOUSAND CATTLE, gone astray

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

FC 11 T-13

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone

When in death I close these eyelids,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

FC 11 T-13

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Wadin' in the Water

See that sister in the high heel shoes,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

FC 11 T-13

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Way Out West in Reno

Oh, they grow their taters big in Reno,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

FC 11 T-13

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

The White Robed Angel Boatman

One by one we cross the river,

The Nevada Cowboy's Album of Songs

Republic Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Dallas Turner (Nevada Slim), Arranger

Young Curley the Wrangler

YOUNG CURLEY THE WRANGLER sneaked off on a date,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

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John Curtis Underwood

Rito de los Frijoles

The Spaniards called it Pajarito because they saw there greater colonies of swallows' nests in taller mud banks

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

Corn Dance, San Domingo

Motors are planted in ranks in gray dust by a dusty gray church.

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

The Heritage

She wanted to go to a hut hospital on the western front.

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

The Trail Mender

We came back from the summit where snowdrifts in August.

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

Goats

White, gray, brown, black, the goats track by together,

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

Coyote

He howls in the hunger of winter,

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

Processional

Coming down hill from Casa Pintada, past the Acequia Madre,

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

The Dimple

I have learned to love this land,

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

The Spring

The springs are hard to find in this old brown land of ours.