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