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    The Texas Cowboy

    By Jack Thorp | Cowboy Poetry | 0 comment | 28 February, 2017 | 0

    Come all you Texas cow-boys
    And warning take of me
    Don’t go out in Montana
    For wealth or liberty
    But stay home here in Texas
    Where they work the year around
    And where you’ll not get consumption
    From sleeping on the ground.

    Montana is too cold for me,
    And the winters are too long
    Before the round-ups have begun,
    Your money is all gone.
    For in Montana the boys get work
    But six months in a year
    And they charge for things three prices
    In that land so bleak and drear.

    This this old hen-skin bedding,
    ‘Twas nor enough to shield my form
    For I almost freeze to death,
    Whene’er there comes a storm.
    I’ve an outfit on the Musselshell,
    Which I expect I’ll never see,
    Unless by chance I’m sent
    To represent this A R and P T.

    All along these bad lands,
    And down upon the dry
    Where the canons have no bottoms
    And the mountains reach the sky.
    Your chuck is bread and bacon
    And coffee black as ink
    And hard old alkali water
    That’s scarcely fit to drink.

    They’ll wake you in the morning
    Before the break of day
    And send you out on circle,
    Full twenty miles away.
    With a “Tenderfoot” to lead you
    Who never knows the way
    You’re pegging in the best of luck
    If you get two meals a day.

    I’ve been over in Colorado
    And down upon the Platte
    Where the cow-boys work in pastures
    And the cattle are all fat.
    Where they ride silver mounted saddles
    And spurs and leggin’s too
    And their horses are all Normans
    And only fit to plow.

    Yes, I’ve traveled lots of country,
    Arizona’s hills of sand
    Down through the Indian Nation
    Plum to the Rio Grande.
    Montana is the bad-land
    The worst I’ve ever seen
    Where the cow-boys are all tenderfeet
    And the dogies are all lean.

     

    Photo by Todd Klassy

    1908, Montana, Texas

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