Songs Of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp

Complete Text & Lyrics by John A Lomax

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The Cowboy's Dance Song
The ladies said 'twas seldom that they had had the
chance
To see an old-time puncher at a high-toned dance.
I cut me out a heifer from a bunch of pretty girls
And yanked her to the center to dance the dreamy
whirls.
She laid her head upon my bosom in a loving sort
of way
And we drifted into heaven as the band began to
play.
I could feel my neck a-burning from her nose's
breathing heat, "
And she do-ce-doed around me, half the time upon
my feet;
She peered up in my blinkers with a soul-dissolving
glance
Quite conducive to the pleasures of a high-toned
dance.
Every nerve just got a-dancing to the music of de-
light
As I hugged the little sagehen uncomfortably tight;
But she never made a bellow and the glances of her
eyes
Seemed to thank me for the pleasure of a genuine
surprise.
She snuggled up against me in a loving sort of way,
And I hugged her all the tighter for her trustifying
play,—
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