Our Singing Country

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	Men at Work
	9 I have seen the fruits of rambling, I know its hardships well $ I have crossed the Rocky Mountains, rode down the streets of hell ; I have been in the great Southwest where the wild Apaches roam, And 1 tell you from experience you had better stay at home.
	DIAMOND JOE * d. No. 537. J. B. Dillingham, Austin, Texas, 1935. See Lo.i, p. 65; Od.2, p, 130. "Diamond Joe was a Texas cattleman,-the story goes, so rich that he was said to wear diamonds for his vest buttons. I learned this song years ago," says J. B. Dillingham, for fifty years a conductor on Houston and Texas Central trains running out of Austin.


	1 Old Diamond Joe was a rich old jay, With lots of cowboys in his pay 3 He rode the range with his cowboy band, And many a mav'rick got his brand. * Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, pp. 6$—66 (New York: MacmiUan, 193S)

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