Little Joe the Wrangler-Marty Robbins

[ti:Little Joe The Wrangler] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:More Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Joe the Wrangler - Marty Robbins [00:06.85]Little Joe the Wrangler [00:09.03]Will wrangle nevermore [00:10.76] [00:11.89]His days with the roundup they are o'er [00:15.02] [00:17.10]Was a year ago last April [00:19.44] [00:19.95]When he rode into our camp [00:21.76] [00:22.49]Just a little Texas stray [00:24.55]And nothing more [00:25.72] [00:27.97]Was late in the evening [00:29.87] [00:30.76]When he rode into our camp [00:32.44] [00:33.42]On the little Texas pony he called Chaw [00:36.93] [00:38.56]With his brogan shoes [00:40.14]And overalls a tougher looking kid [00:43.42] [00:44.25]You never in your life before had saw [00:47.51] [00:49.71]His saddle was a Texas kack [00:52.28]Built many years ago [00:54.07] [00:55.22]An OK spur on one foot lightly swung [00:58.43] [00:59.88]With his packroll in a cotton sack [01:03.21]So loosely tied behind [01:05.19] [01:05.80]And a canteen from his saddle horn was slung [01:09.22] [01:11.28]He said he had to leave his home [01:14.10]His pa had married twice [01:15.93] [01:16.95]His new ma whipped him every day or two [01:19.91] [01:21.90]So he saddled up old Chaw one night [01:24.77]And lit a shuck his way [01:26.67] [01:27.78]He said he'd try to paddle his own canoe [01:30.69] [01:33.13]He said if we would give him work [01:35.75]He'd do the best he could [01:37.54] [01:38.44]Though he didn't know straight up about a cow [01:41.69] [01:43.44]So the boss he cut him out a mount [01:46.64]And kindly put him on [01:48.47] [01:49.26]He sorta liked this little kid somehow [01:52.17] [01:54.57]He learned to wrangle horses [01:56.41] [01:57.18]And learned to know them all [01:59.27] [01:59.87]And get them in daybreakk if he could [02:03.05] [02:04.94]And to trail the old chuck wagon [02:07.29] [02:08.06]And always hitch the team [02:09.93] [02:10.83]And help to cook each evening rustle wood [02:14.00] [02:15.94]We had hardly reached the Pecos [02:17.85] [02:19.05]The weather it was fine [02:20.57] [02:21.55]We were camped down on the south side [02:24.12]In a draw [02:24.88] [02:26.72]When a northern commenced blowing [02:28.63] [02:29.53]And we doubled up our guards [02:31.42] [02:32.20]It took every one of us to hold them in [02:35.53] [02:38.06]Little Joe the Wrangler was called out [02:41.46]With the rest [02:42.70]Scarcely had the little fellow [02:45.40]Reached the herd [02:46.29] [02:48.17]When the cattle they stampeded like [02:51.27]A hailstorm on they fled [02:52.89] [02:54.06]And everyone was ridin' for the lead [02:56.98] [02:59.32]Amid the streaks of lightnin' [03:01.29] [03:01.82]There was one horse up ahead [03:03.62] [03:04.63]He was tryin' to check the leaders [03:06.89]In their speed [03:07.76] [03:09.84]It was little Joe the Wrangler [03:11.75] [03:12.48]With a slicker o'er his head [03:14.31] [03:15.20]He was ridin' Old Blue Rocket in the lead [03:18.45] [03:20.63]At last we got them millin' [03:22.46] [03:23.20]And kinda quited down [03:25.03] [03:25.84]And the extra guards back to the wagon went [03:29.03] [03:31.16]But there was one a missin' [03:33.10] [03:33.88]We could see it at a glance [03:35.73] [03:36.40]Was our little Texas stray poor Wrangler Joe [03:39.69] [03:41.84]Next morning just at daybreak [03:43.66] [03:44.51]We found where Rocket fell [03:46.22] [03:47.23]Down in a washout twenty feet below [03:50.12] [03:52.46]Beneath his horse his life had gone [03:55.02] [03:55.53]His spur had run it's knell [03:57.15] [03:57.77]Was our little Texas stray poor Wrangler Joe