Little Joe The Wrangler-Chris Ledoux

[ti:Little Joe The Wrangler] [ar:Chris Ledoux] [al:Old Cowboy Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Joe The Wrangler - Chris Ledoux (克里斯-勒多克斯) [00:11.02]Little Joe the wrangler he'll wrangle never more [00:15.10] [00:15.93]His days with the remuda they're all done [00:19.10] [00:20.78]It was long about last April he rode into our camp [00:25.82]Just a little Texas stray and all alone [00:29.77] [00:31.10]It was long late in [00:32.72]The evening when he rode into our camp [00:35.56] [00:36.46]On a little old brown pony he called Shaw [00:39.90] [00:41.36]In his brogan shoes and coveralls a harder lookin' kid [00:46.08] [00:46.68]You never in you life have seen before [00:50.09] [00:52.29]His saddle was a Sother kack built many years ago [00:55.90] [00:57.07]An OK spur on one foot idly hung [00:59.88] [01:02.06]With his bed roll in a cotton sack was loosely tied behind [01:06.36] [01:07.46]And a canteen from the saddle horn he'd slung [01:09.99] [01:12.31]Said he had to leav his home [01:14.61]Because his paw had married twice [01:16.94] [01:17.79]His new maw beat him every day or two [01:21.00] [01:22.16]So he saddled up old Shaw one night and [01:25.82]It a shuck this way [01:27.89]Thought he'd try and paddle now his own canoe [01:31.25] [01:32.87]Said head try to do the best he could if [01:36.18]We'd only give him work [01:38.17]Though he didn't know straight up about a cow [01:41.40] [01:43.20]So the boss he cut him out a mount and [01:46.17]Kinda put him on [01:47.79] [01:48.45]And we knew he liked our little stray somehow [01:51.94] [01:53.56]Well he taught him how to heard [01:55.92]The horses and learned to know 'em all [01:58.15] [01:58.72]And to get 'em in by daylight if he could [02:01.74] [02:03.78]And to follow the chuck wagon and to always hitch the team [02:08.43] [02:08.95]And to help the carsonaro rustle wood [02:12.14] [02:14.86]We had driven to Red River and the weather it was fine [02:18.37] [02:19.73]We were camped down on the south side of the bend [02:22.36] [02:24.49]When a Norther started blowin' we called the extra guard [02:28.54] [02:29.56]'Cause it took all hands to hold the cattle in [02:32.07] [02:34.43]Now little Joe the wrangler was called out like the rest [02:38.90] [02:39.90]Barely had the kid got to the heard [02:42.85] [02:44.63]When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm on they flew [02:49.10] [02:49.69]With all of us a ridin' for the lead [02:53.52] [02:55.41]Between the streaks of lightnin' we could see a horse ahead [02:58.68] [02:59.80]It was little Joe the wrangler in the lead [03:02.87] [03:04.79]He was riding old Blue Rocket with a slicker o'er his head [03:09.08] [03:10.00]And he's trying to check the leaders in their speed [03:12.68] [03:14.91]We finally got'em millin' and they sort of quieted down [03:19.20] [03:20.25]The extra guard back to the camp did go [03:23.05] [03:25.09]But one of them was missing and [03:26.82] [03:27.69]We all knew at a glance [03:28.80] [03:29.97]Twas our little Texas strayboy wrangler Joe [03:33.25] [03:35.13]We found him there at sun up where old Blue Rocket fell [03:39.39] [03:40.51]In some washout twenty feet below [03:43.43] [03:45.85]Beneath his horse smashed to a pulphis spur had rung the knell [03:50.80]For our little Texas stray bos wrangler Joe [03:53.65] [03:55.54]Little Joe the wrangler he'll wrangle never more [03:59.90] [04:00.72]His days with the remuda they're all done [04:03.85] [04:05.16]It was long about last April he rode into our camp [04:10.62]Just a little Texas stray and all alone