Songs Of The Cowboys - online songbook

A Collection of 100+ Traditional Western & Cowboy Songs.

Compiled by N. HOWARD THORP 1921

AS a cowboy poet, N. Howard Thorp — better known as "Jack Thorp" to his many friends in the Southwest — is the genuine thing. He is an old-time cattleman and cowpuncher, and his songs are the fruit of experience. His gift is instinctive and naive, like that of all real cowboy poets, and its charm is precisely in its fresh and "unliterary" quality. "How long have you been in this country?" I asked "Jack " Thorp one day soon after I met him. We were sitting on the well-curb in the plaza of an Indian pueblo watching a Rain-Dance. " You see those cedars up there on the hills? " he said, looking above the roof-tops to the foothills. "Well, I planted them." It was a typical cowboy answer, evasive and sym­bolic, and it indicated perfectly well that he might be regarded as part of the soil. The cowboy does n't "loosen up" until he knows you fairly well.
Alice Corbin Henderson, Santa Fe New Mexico

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Songs Of The Cowboys - online book, index. Deduct 100 from the numbers given to get the original book page numbers.

Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Contents Contents Contents Contents Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Arizona Boys And Girls, The - 0101 Page - 0102 Arroyo Al's Cow-Pony - 0103 Biblical Cowboy, The - 0104 Page - 0105 Billy The Kid Of William H. Bonney - 0106 Page - 0107 Page - 0108 Boozer, The - 0109 Border Affair, A - 0110 Bronc Peeler's Song - 0111 Bronco Jack's Thanksgiving - 0112 Page - 0113 Backing Bronco - 0114 Buckskin Joe . - 0115 Page - 0116 Page - 0117 California Trail - 0118 Page - 0119 Camp-Fire Has Gone Out, The - 0120 Chase Of The 0 L C Steer . - 0121 Page - 0122 Chopo - 0123 Chuck-Time On The Round-Up - 0124 Page - 0125 Page - 0126 Page - 0127 Page - 0128 Page - 0129 Cow-Camp On The Range, A - 0130 Cowboy At Church, The - 0131 Page - 0132 Page - 0133 Cowboy At Work, The - 0134 Cowboys' Christmas Ball, The - 0135 Page - 0136 Page - 0137 Page - 0138 Page - 0139 Cowboy's Dream, The - 0140 Cowboy's Lament, The - 0141 Page - 0142 Page - 0143 Cowboy's Life, The - 0144 Page - 0145 Cowboy's Meditation, The - 0146 Cowboy's Prayer, A - 0147 Cowboy's Prize, A - 0148 Cowboys Victimized - 0149 Page - 0150 Page - 0151 Cowman's Prayer, The - 0152 Crooked Trail To Holbrook, The - 0153 Page - 0154 Crossing The Divide - 0155 Page - 0156 Dan Taylor - 0157 Page - 0158 Deer Hunt, A - 0159 Down On The Ol' Bar-G - 0160 Dreary, Dreary Life, The - 0161 Dying Cowboy, The - 0162 End Op The Yaqui Trail, The - 0163 Page - 0164 Fate Of The Beef Steer, The - 0165 Fightin' Mad - 0166 Forget The East - 0167 Frijole Beanses - 0168 Gal I Left Behind Me, The . - 0169 Get Along, Little Dogies - 0170 Gol-Darned Wheel, The - 0171 Page - 0172 Page - 0173 Greaser Joe's Place - 0174 Great Round-Up, The - 0175 Page - 0176 Hell In Texas - 0177 Page - 0178 Hell-Bound Tram, The - 0179

Page - 0180 High-Chin Bob - 0181 Page - 0182 Page - 0183 John Garner's Trail Herd . - 0184 Jolly Cowboy, The - 0185 Page - 0186 Page - 0187 Last Longhorn, The - 0188 Page - 0189 Page - 0190 Las Vegas Reunion - 0191 'light, Stranger, 'light . - 0192 Little Adobe Casa - 0193 Little Cow-Girl, The - 0194 Little Joe, The Wrangler - 0195 Page - 0196 Page - 0197 Love On The Range - 0198 Man Named Hods, A - 0199 Page - 0200 Mule-Skinners, The - 0201 Mustang Gray - 0202 Page - 0203 My Little Brown Mule - 0204 New National Anthem - 0205 Nigger Lasses Three-Block Bronco-Buster - 0206 Page - 0207 Night-Herding Song - 0208 Old Chisholm Trail, The - 0209 Page - 0210 Page - 0211 Old Cowman, The - 0212 Ol' Dynamite . - 0213 Page - 0214 Old Grazin' Ben - 0215 Old Hans - 0216 Old North - 0217 Old Paint - 0218 Old Paint - 0219 Page - 0220 Old-Time Cowboy - 0221 Old Trouble, A L Ranch Colored Cook - 0222 On The Dodge - 0223 Overland Stage, The - 0224 Page - 0225 Pecos River Queen, The - 0226 Pecos Tom - 0227 Page - 0228 Prairie Song, A - 0229 Prospector, The - 0230 Punchin' Dough - 0231 Railroad Corral, The - 0232 Page - 0233 Rambling Cowboy, The - 0234 Sam Bass - 0235 Page - 0236 Page - 0237 Sky-High - 0238 Page - 0239 Song Of The Range, A - 0240 Page - 0241 Speckles .... - 0242 Page - 0243 Page - 0244 Ten Thousand Texas Rangers - 0245 Tenderfoot, The . - 0246 Page - 0247 Texas Cowboy, The - 0248 Page - 0249 Page - 0250 Thanksgiving On The Ranch - 0251 Page - 0252 Three-Block Tom - 0253 Page - 0254 Page - 0255 Top Hand - 0256 Page - 0257 U S U Range, The - 0258 Page - 0259 Western Life . - 0260 Westward Ho! - 0261 What's Become Of The Punchers? - 0262 Page - 0263 When Bob Got Throwed - 0264 Whose Old Cow? - 0265 Page - 0266 Page - 0267 Windy Bill . . - 0268 Page - 0269 Women Outlaws - 0270 Zebra Dun, The - 0271 Page - 0272 Page - 0273 Page - 0274 Page - 0277 Page - 0278 Page - 0281 Page - 0282 Page - 0283 Page - 0284