Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about last April, he rode into our Just a little stray and all alone
It was long late in the evening when he rode into our On a little old brown pony he Shaw In his Brogan shoes and coveralls a harder kid You never in your have seen before
His saddle was a southern built many years ago An OK spur on one idly hung With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely behind And a canteen the saddle horn he'd slung
Said he had to leave his because his pa had married twice His new ma him every day or two So he saddled up old one night and lit a shuck this way Thought he'd try and paddle now his own
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd only him work Though he didn't straight up about 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 if he could 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 weather it was We camped down on the south side in a bend a norther started blowin', we called the extra guard 'Cause it took all hands to the cattle in
Now Little Joe the Wrangler was called out all the rest And barely had the kid got to the When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm, on they With all of us a for the lead
Between the streaks of lightnin' we see a horse ahead It was Little Joe the in the lead He was riding old Rocket with a slicker o'er his head He was to check the leaders in their speed
We got 'em millin' and they sort of quieted down The extra back to the camp did go All but one of them was and we all knew at a glance T'was our little Texas boy Wrangler Joe
We found him there at sun up old Blue Rocket fell In a washout twenty feet below Beneath his horse smashed to a pulp, his spur had rung the For our little stray boy Wrangler Joe
Now Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle 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