Little Joe the Wrangler-Marty Robbins

[ti:Little Joe the Wrangler] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Vols. 1 & 2 (Bonus Track Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Joe the Wrangler - Marty Robbins [00:06.29]Little Joe the Wrangler will wrangle nevermore [00:10.48] [00:11.29]His days with the roundup they are o'er [00:14.75] [00:16.65]Was a year ago last April when he rode into our camp [00:21.98]Just a little Texas stray and nothing more [00:25.94] [00:27.41]Was late in the evening when he rode into our camp [00:32.16] [00:32.89]On the little Texas pony he called Chaw [00:36.65] [00:38.02]With his brogan shoes and overalls a tougher looking kid [00:42.99] [00:43.68]You never in your life before had saw [00:47.36] [00:49.07]His saddle was a Texas kack built many years ago [00:53.45] [00:54.71]An OK spur on one foot lightly swung [00:58.04] [00:59.62]With his packroll in a cotton sack so loosely tied behind [01:04.28] [01:05.22]And a canteen from his saddle horn was slung [01:08.80] [01:10.61]He said he had to leave his home his pa had married twice [01:15.24] [01:16.28]His new ma whipped him every day or two [01:19.38] [01:21.11]So he saddled up old Chaw one night [01:24.05]And lit a shuck his way [01:25.90] [01:26.86]He said he'd try to paddle his own canoe [01:30.08] [01:32.23]He said if we would give him work [01:35.06]He'd do the best he could [01:36.67] [01:37.66]Though he didn't know straight up about a cow [01:41.12] [01:42.70]So the boss he cut him out a mount and kindly put him on [01:47.67] [01:48.37]He sorta liked this little kid somehow [01:51.61] [01:53.77]He learned to wrangle horses and learned to know them all [01:58.37] [01:59.12]And get them in at daybreakk if he could [02:02.43] [02:04.18]And to trail the old chuck wagon and always hitch the team [02:09.01] [02:09.93]And help to cook each evening rustle wood [02:13.22] [02:15.03]We had hardly reached the pecos [02:17.21] [02:18.28]The weather it was fine [02:19.96] [02:20.72]We were camped down on the south side in a draw [02:24.14] [02:25.77]When a northern commenced blowing [02:28.00] [02:28.72]And we doubled up our guards [02:30.73] [02:31.39]It took every one of us to hold them in [02:34.76] [02:37.13]Little joe the wrangler was called out with the rest [02:41.79]Scarcely had the little fellow reached the herd [02:45.40] [02:47.17]When the cattle they stampeded [02:49.28] [02:50.14]Like a hailstorm on they fled [02:51.92] [02:53.17]And everyone was ridin' for the lead [02:57.03] [02:58.24]Amid the streaks of lightnin' [03:00.17] [03:00.86]There was one horse up ahead [03:02.55] [03:03.51]He was tryin' to check the leaders in their speed [03:07.12] [03:08.82]It was little joe the wrangler with a slicker o'er his head [03:13.43] [03:14.14]He was ridin' old blue rocket in the lead [03:17.86] [03:19.54]At last we got them millin' and kinda quited down [03:24.89]And the extra guards back to the wagon went [03:29.18] [03:30.21]But there was one a missin' we could see it at a glance [03:34.69] [03:35.38]Was our little texas stray poor wrangler joe [03:38.95] [03:40.80]Next morning just at daybreak we found where rocket fell [03:45.34] [03:46.12]Down in a washout twenty feet below [03:50.03] [03:51.39]Beneath his horse his life had gone [03:54.30]His spung had run it's knell [03:56.00] [03:56.69]Was our little texas stray poor wrangler joe