Little Joe The Wrangler - Sara Carter

[00:00.0]Little Joe The Wrangler - Sara Carter
[00:01.97]Little Joe the Wrangler will wrangle nevermore
[00:06.14]His days with the roundup they are o'er
[00:10.3]Was a year ago last April
[00:12.67]When he rode into our camp
[00:14.76]Just a little Texas stray and nothing more
[00:18.97]Was late in the evening
[00:21.39]When he rode into our camp
[00:23.41]On the little Texas pony he called Chaw
[00:27.51]With his brogan shoes
[00:28.91]And overalls a tougher looking kid
[00:31.98]You never in your life before had saw
[00:36.39]His saddle was a Texas kack built many years ago
[00:40.39]An OK spur on one foot lightly swung
[00:44.85]With his packroll in a cotton
[00:46.66]Sack so loosely tied behind
[00:48.82]And a canteen from his saddle horn was slung
[00:53.36]He said he had to leave his home
[00:55.68]His pa had married twice
[00:57.45]His new ma whipped him every day or two
[01:01.5]So he saddled up old Chaw one night
[01:04.01]And lit a shuck his way
[01:05.95]He said he'd try to paddle his own canoe
[01:10.229996]He said if we would give him work
[01:12.42]He'd do the best he could
[01:14.25]Though he didn't know straight up about a cow
[01:18.28]So the boss he cut him out a mount
[01:20.8]And kindly put him on
[01:22.54]He sorta liked this little kid somehow
[01:26.979996]He learned to wrangle horses
[01:28.76]And learned to know them all
[01:31.09]And get them in at daybreakk if he could
[01:35.259995]And to trail the old chuck wagon
[01:37.35]And always hitch the team
[01:39.29]And help to cook each evening rustle wood
[01:43.6]We had hardly reached the
[01:44.69]Pecos the weather it was fine
[01:47.64]We were camped down
[01:48.770004]On the south side in a draw
[01:51.59]When a northern commenced blowing
[01:53.6]And we doubled up our guards
[01:55.759995]It took every one of us to hold them in
[02:00.22]Little Joe the Wrangler was called out with the rest
[02:04.0]Scarcely had the little fellow reached the herd
[02:08.01]When the cattle they
[02:09.28]Stampeded like a hailstorm on they fled
[02:12.56]And everyone was ridin' for the lead
[02:16.82]Between the streaks of lightnin'
[02:18.64]We could see a horse ahead
[02:20.74]It was Little Joe the Wrangler in the lead
[02:24.84]He was riding old Blue
[02:26.43]Rocket with a slicker o'er his head
[02:28.93]He was trying to check the leaders in their speed
[02:33.27]We finally got 'em millin'
[02:35.39]And they sort of quieted down
[02:37.3]The extra guard back to the camp did go
[02:41.63]All but one of them was
[02:43.28]Missing and we all knew at a glance
[02:45.48]T'was our little Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
[02:49.94]We found him there at sun up
[02:51.74]Where old Blue Rocket fell
[02:53.89]In a washout some twenty feet below
[02:57.93]Beneath his horse smashed to a pulp
[03:00.02]His spur had rung the knell
[03:02.52]For our little Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe