Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His with the remuda, they're all done It was about last April, he rode into our camp Just a little stray and all alone
It was long late in the when he rode into our camp On a little old pony he called Shaw In his shoes and coveralls a harder lookin' kid You never in your life seen before
His saddle was a kack built many years ago An OK spur on one foot hung With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was tied 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 up old Shaw one night and lit a shuck this way he'd try and paddle now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd only give him Though he didn't know straight up a cow So the boss he cut him out a and kinda put him on And we knew he our little stray somehow
Well, he taught him how to herd the horses, learned to 'em all And to get 'em in by daylight if he And to follow the chuck wagon and to hitch the team And to help the rustle wood
We had to red river and the weather it was fine We were camped down on the south side in a a norther started blowin', we called the extra guard 'Cause it took all hands to hold the in
Now Joe the Wrangler was called out with all the rest And had the kid got to the herd When the they stampeded like a hailstorm, on they flew With all of us a ridin' for the
Between the 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 in their speed
We finally got 'em and they sort of quieted down The extra guard back to the did go All but one of them was 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 fell In a washout twenty feet below Beneath his smashed to a pulp, his spur had rung the knell For our little stray boy Wrangler Joe
Now Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle never His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about last he rode into our camp Just a little Texas stray and all