Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His with the remuda, they're all done It was long about last April, he rode into our Just a little Texas and all alone
It was long late in the when he rode into our camp On a old brown pony he called Shaw In his Brogan shoes and coveralls a harder kid You never in your life have seen
His saddle was a southern kack built many ago An OK spur on one foot idly With his bed in a cotton sack, was loosely tied behind And a canteen from the saddle 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 Shaw one night and lit a this way Thought try and paddle now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd give him work Though he didn't straight up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a mount and put him on And we knew he liked our little stray
Well, he taught him how to herd the horses, learned to 'em all And to get 'em in by daylight if he And to the chuck wagon and to always hitch the team And to the carsonaro rustle wood
We had driven to red and the weather it was fine We were down on the south side in a bend When a norther started blowin', we called the extra 'Cause it took all 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 they stampeded like a hailstorm, on they 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 check the in their speed
We got 'em millin' and they sort of quieted down The guard back to the camp did go All but one of them was missing and we all knew at a T'was our little Texas stray boy Joe
We found him at sun up where old Blue Rocket fell In a washout some feet below Beneath his horse smashed to a pulp, his spur had rung the For our little Texas stray boy Joe
Now Little Joe the Wrangler, wrangle never more His days with the remuda, all done It was long about last he rode into our camp Just a Texas stray and all alone