Songs Of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp

Complete Text & Lyrics by John A Lomax

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The Glory Trail
" Oh, glory be to me" laughs he.
" We hit the glory trail.
No human man as I have read
Darst loop a ragin' lioris head,
Nor ever hawse could drag one dead
Until we told the tale"
'Way high up the Mogollons
That top-hawse done his best,
Through whippin' brush and rattlin' stones,
From canyon-floor to crest.
But ever when Bob turned and hoped
A limp remains to find,
A red-eyed lion, belly roped
But healthy, loped behind.
" Oh, glory be to me" grunts he,
" This glory trail is rough,
Yet even till the Judgment Morn
Til keep this dally Wound the horn,
For never any hero born
Could stoop to holler:
' nufi!'"
Three suns had rode their circle home
Beyond the desert's rim,
And turned their star herds loose to roam
The ranges high and dim;
Yet up and down and round and 'cross
Bob pounded, weak and wan,
For pride still glued him to his hawse
And glory drove him on.
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