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  • 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 spung had run its knell
  • Was our little Texas stray poor Wrangler Joe...

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