Songs Of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp

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THE COWBOY TO HIS FRIEND IN NEED
Y OU'RE very well polished, Fm free to confess,
Well balanced, well rounded, a power for right;
But cool and collected,— no steel could be less;
You're primed for continual fight
Your voice is a bellicose bark of ill-will,
On hatred and choler you seem to have fed;
But when I control you, your temper is nil;
In fact, you're most easily led.
Though lead is your diet and fight is your fun,
I simply can't give you the jolt;
For I love you, you blessed old son-of-a-gun,—
You forty-five caliber Colt!
Burke Jenkins.
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