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Men at Work
couldn't sing no more, because they didn't know no more songs. But I was ready with the last one and had more roped and ready. Of course you couldn't use no books and no writing. I was mighty proud of being the champeen singer of the Texas Panhandle. My cowboy friends gave me a pair of silver-mounted spurs for a prize with my name engraved on them."
—Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
TEXAS RANGERS
d\ f'$. No. 1561. Tune and first stanza, Pauline Farris, Gladys Wilder, Dora Lewis, and Reda West, Liberty, Ky., 1937. Other stanzas, L0.2, p. 359. See Cox, p. 362} FL2, p. 226$ Be, p. 336.
He leaves unflowed his furrow} he leaves his books unread For a life of tented freedom, by the lure of danger led. No more he}ll go a-ranging> the savage to affright; He has heard his last war-whoop and fought his last fight.