Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll never more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about April, he rode into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone
It was long late in the when he rode into our camp On a little old brown pony he Shaw In his Brogan shoes and a harder lookin' kid You never in your have seen before
His was a southern kack built many years ago An OK spur on one idly hung his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely tied behind And a canteen from the saddle he'd slung
Said he had to his home because his pa had married twice His new ma beat him day or two So he saddled up old Shaw one night and lit a shuck way he'd try and paddle now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the he could if we'd only give him work Though he didn't know straight up a cow So the he cut him out a mount and kinda put him on And we knew he liked our stray somehow
Well, he him how to herd the horses, learned to know 'em all And to get 'em in by daylight if he And to follow the chuck and to always hitch the team And to help the carsonaro wood
We had driven to red river and the it was fine We were camped down on the side in a bend When a norther started blowin', we called the extra 'Cause it took all hands to hold the in
Now Little Joe the Wrangler was called out with all the And had the kid got to the herd When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm, on flew With all of us a for the lead
Between the streaks of lightnin' we see a horse ahead It was Little Joe the Wrangler in the He was old Blue Rocket with a slicker o'er his head He was trying to check the leaders in their
We finally got 'em and they sort of quieted down The extra guard to the camp did go All but one of was missing and we all knew at a glance T'was our little stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him there at sun up where old Blue Rocket In a washout some twenty feet Beneath his horse to a pulp, his spur had rung the knell For our little Texas stray boy Joe
Now Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle never more His days with the remuda, all done It was long about April he rode into our camp Just a little stray and all alone