Little Joe the Wrangler, wrangle never more His days with the remuda, all done It was long about April, he rode into our camp Just a little Texas and all alone
It was long late in the evening when he rode our camp On a little old brown he called Shaw In his Brogan and coveralls a harder lookin' kid You never in your life have seen
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 from the saddle horn he'd slung
Said he had to leave his because his pa had married twice His new ma beat him day or two So he saddled up old one night and lit a shuck this way Thought he'd try and now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he if we'd only give him work he didn't know straight up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a and kinda put him on And we knew he liked our little somehow
Well, he taught him how to herd the horses, to know 'em all And to get 'em in by if he could And to follow the chuck wagon and to always the team And to help the carsonaro wood
We had driven to red and the weather it was fine We were camped down on the south in a bend a norther started blowin', we called the extra guard 'Cause it all hands to hold the cattle in
Now Little Joe the was called out with all the rest And barely had the kid got to the When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm, on flew With all of us a for the lead
Between the streaks of we could see a horse ahead It was Joe the Wrangler in the lead He was riding old Blue Rocket a slicker o'er his head He was trying to the leaders in their speed
We got 'em millin' and they sort of quieted down The extra guard to the camp did go All but one of them was missing and we all at a glance T'was our Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him there at sun up where old Blue Rocket In a washout some twenty below Beneath his horse to a pulp, his spur had rung the knell For our little Texas stray boy Joe
Now Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll never more His days with the remuda, all done It was long last April he rode into our camp Just a little stray and all alone