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[스크랩] Little Joe the Wrangler /Jim hendricks

김광원 2016. 1. 16. 10:45
 Little Joe the Wrangler /Jim hendricks
Little Joe the Wrangler will wrangle nevermore
 His days with the roundup they are o'er
 Was a year ago last April when he rode into our camp
 Just a little Texas stray and nothing more
Was late in the evening when he rode into our camp
 On the little Texas pony he called Chaw
 With his brogan shoes and overalls a tougher looking kid
 You never in your life before had saw
His saddle was a Texas kack built many years ago
 An OK spur on one foot lightly swung
 With his packroll in a cotton sack so loosely tied behind
 And a canteen from his saddle horn was slung
He said he had to leave his home his pa had married twice
 His new ma whipped him every day or two
 So he saddled up old Chaw one night and lit a shuck his way
 He said he'd try to paddle his own canoe
He said if we would give him work he'd do the best he could
 Though he didn't know straight up about a cow
 So the boss he cut him out a mount and kindly put him on
 He sorta liked this little kid somehow
He learned to wrangle horses and learned to know them all
 And get them in at daybreakk if he could
 And to trail the old chuck wagon and always hitch the team
 And help to cook each evening rustle wood
We had hardly reached the Pecos the weather it was fine
 We were camped down on the south side in a draw
 When a northern commenced blowing and we doubled up our guards
 It took every one of us to hold them in
Little Joe the Wrangler was called out with the rest
 Scarcely had the little fellow reached the herd
 When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm on they fled
 And everyone was ridin' for the lead
Amid the streaks of lightnin' there was one horse up ahead
 He was tryin' to check the leaders in their speed
 It was little Joe the Wrangler with a slicker o'er his head
 He was ridin' Old Blue Rocket in the lead
At last we got them millin' and kinda quited down
 And the extra guards back to the wagon went
 But there was one a missin' we could see it at a glance
 Was our little Texas stray poor Wrangler Joe
Next morning just at daybreak we found where Rocket fell
 Down in a washout twenty feet below
 Beneath his horse his life had gone his spur had run its knell
 Was our little Texas stray poor Wrangler Joe


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