Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle never His days with the remuda, all done It was long about last April, he into our camp Just a little stray and all alone
It was long late in the evening he rode into our camp On a little old brown pony he called In his Brogan and coveralls a harder lookin' kid You never in your life have before
His saddle was a southern kack built years ago An OK on one foot idly 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 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 could if we'd only him work Though he 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 stray
Well, he taught him how to the horses, learned to know 'em all And to get 'em in by if he could And to follow the chuck and to always hitch the team And to help the carsonaro rustle
We had driven to red river and the weather it was We were camped down on the south in a bend When a started blowin', we called the extra guard it took all hands to hold the cattle in
Now Little Joe the Wrangler was 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 of lightnin' we could see a horse ahead It was Little Joe the in the lead He was riding old Blue Rocket a slicker o'er his head He was trying to check the in their speed
We finally got 'em millin' and they sort of quieted The extra guard back to the did go All but one of them was missing and we all at a glance T'was our little Texas stray boy Joe
We found him there at sun up where old Blue Rocket In a washout some feet below Beneath his horse to a pulp, his spur had rung the knell For our Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
Now Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll never more His days with the remuda, all done It was long about April he rode into our camp Just a Texas stray and all alone