Little Joe The Wrangler - Marty Robbins

[00:00.0]Little Joe The Wrangler - Marty Robbins
[00:06.85]Little Joe the Wrangler
[00:09.03]Will wrangle nevermore
[00:11.89]His days with the roundup they are o'er
[00:17.1]Was a year ago last April
[00:19.95]When he rode into our camp
[00:22.49]Just a little Texas stray
[00:24.55]And nothing more
[00:27.97]Was late in the evening
[00:30.76]When he rode into our camp
[00:33.42]On the little Texas pony he called Chaw
[00:38.56]With his brogan shoes
[00:40.14]And overalls a tougher looking kid
[00:44.25]You never in your life before had saw
[00:49.71]His saddle was a Texas kack
[00:52.28]Built many years ago
[00:55.22]An OK spur on one foot lightly swung
[00:59.88]With his packroll in a cotton sack
[01:03.21]So loosely tied behind
[01:05.8]And a canteen from his saddle horn was slung
[01:11.28]He said he had to leave his home
[01:14.1]His pa had married twice
[01:16.95]His new ma whipped him every day or two
[01:21.9]So he saddled up old Chaw one night
[01:24.770004]And lit a shuck his way
[01:27.78]He said he'd try to paddle his own canoe
[01:33.130005]He said if we would give him work
[01:35.75]He'd do the best he could
[01:38.44]Though he didn't know straight up about a cow
[01:43.44]So the boss he cut him out a mount
[01:46.64]And kindly put him on
[01:49.259995]He sorta liked this little kid somehow
[01:54.57]He learned to wrangle horses
[01:57.18]And learned to know them all
[01:59.869995]And get them in daybreakk if he could
[02:04.94]And to trail the old chuck wagon
[02:08.06]And always hitch the team
[02:10.83]And help to cook each evening rustle wood
[02:15.94]We had hardly reached the Pecos
[02:19.05]The weather it was fine
[02:21.55]We were camped down on the south side
[02:24.12]In a draw
[02:26.72]When a northern commenced blowing
[02:29.53]And we doubled up our guards
[02:32.2]It took every one of us to hold them in
[02:38.06]Little Joe the Wrangler was called out
[02:41.45999]With the rest
[02:42.7]Scarcely had the little fellow
[02:45.4]Reached the herd
[02:48.17]When the cattle they stampeded like
[02:51.27]A hailstorm on they fled
[02:54.06]And everyone was ridin' for the lead
[02:59.32]Amid the streaks of lightnin'
[03:01.82]There was one horse up ahead
[03:04.63]He was tryin' to check the leaders
[03:06.89]In their speed
[03:09.84]It was little Joe the Wrangler
[03:12.48]With a slicker o'er his head
[03:15.2]He was ridin' Old Blue Rocket in the lead
[03:20.63]At last we got them millin'
[03:23.2]And kinda quited down
[03:25.84]And the extra guards back to the wagon went
[03:31.16]But there was one a missin'
[03:33.88]We could see it at a glance
[03:36.4]Was our little Texas stray poor Wrangler Joe
[03:41.84]Next morning just at daybreak
[03:44.51]We found where Rocket fell
[03:47.23]Down in a washout twenty feet below
[03:52.45999]Beneath his horse his life had gone
[03:55.53]His spur had run it's knell
[03:57.77]Was our little Texas stray poor Wrangler Joe