Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His days with the remuda, all done It was long about last April, he into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone
It was long in the evening when he rode into our camp On a little old brown he called Shaw In his shoes and coveralls a harder lookin' kid You never in your life have seen
His saddle was a southern kack many years ago An OK on one foot idly hung With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely behind And a canteen from the saddle horn he'd
Said he had to his home because his pa had married twice His new ma beat him day or two So he saddled up old Shaw one and lit a shuck this way Thought try and paddle now his own canoe
Said try to do the best he could if we'd only give him work Though he didn't know up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a and kinda put him on And we knew he liked our stray somehow
Well, he him how to herd the horses, learned 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 rustle wood
We had driven to red river and the weather it was We were down on the south side in a bend When a norther started blowin', we the extra guard 'Cause it took all hands to the cattle in
Now Little Joe the was called out with all the rest And had the kid got to the herd When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm, on they With all of us a for the lead
Between the streaks of lightnin' we could see a ahead It was Little Joe the Wrangler in the 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 of quieted down The extra back to the camp did go All but one of them was missing and we all knew at a T'was our Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him there at sun up where old Rocket fell In a washout some twenty feet his horse smashed 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 with the remuda, they're all done It was about last April he rode into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone