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84 SONGS OF THE COWBOYS |
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JOHN GARNER'S TRAIL HERD
Written by one of the waggoners at Fort Worth, Texas, many years ago. I first heard it sung in the Spearfish Valley, Dakota.
Come, all you old-timers, and listen to my song; I'll make it short as possible and I'll not keep you
long; 111 relate to you about the time you all remember
well When we with old Joe Garner drove a beef herd up
the trail.
When we left the ranch it was early in the spring, We had as good a corporal as ever rope did
swing; Good hands and good horses, good outfit through
and through, — We went well equipped, we were a jolly crew.
We had no little herd — two thousand head or
more — And some as wild brush beeves as you ever saw
before. We swung to them all the way and sometimes by
the tail, — Oh, you know we had a circus as we all went up the
trail.
Till we reached the open plains everything went
well, And then them cattle turned in and dealt us merry
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