Songs Of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp

Complete Text & Lyrics by John A Lomax

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Love Lyrics of a Cowboy
The old range sleeps, there hain't a stir.
Less it's a night-hawk's sudden whir,
Or cottonwoods a-whisperin' while
The red moon smiles a lovin' smile.
An' there I set an' hold her hand
So glad I jes can't understand
The reason of it all, or see
Why all the world looks good to me;
Or why I sees in it heap more
Of beauty than I seen before.
Fool talk, perhaps, but it jes seems
We're ridin' through a range o' dreams;
Where medder larks the year round sing,
An' It's jes one eternal spring.
An' time — why time is gone — by gee!
There's no such thing as time to me
Until she says, " Here, boy, you know
You simply jes have got to go;
It's nearly twelve." I rides away,
" Dog-gone a clock! " is what I say.
R. V. Can.
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