Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll never more His days the remuda, they're all done It was long about last April, he rode into our Just a little Texas stray and all
It was long late in the when he rode into our camp On a little old brown pony he called In his Brogan shoes and coveralls a lookin' kid You never in your life have seen
His saddle was a southern kack built years ago An OK spur on one idly hung With his bed in a cotton sack, was loosely tied behind And a canteen from the saddle horn 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 Shaw one 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 give him work Though he didn't know up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a mount and put him on And we knew he liked our little somehow
Well, he him how to herd the horses, learned to know 'em all And to get 'em in by daylight if he And to follow the chuck wagon and to always hitch the And to help the carsonaro wood
We had driven to red river and the it was fine We were camped down on the south in a bend When a started blowin', we called the extra guard 'Cause it took all hands to the cattle in
Now Little Joe the Wrangler was out with all the rest And had the kid got to the herd When the they stampeded like a hailstorm, on they flew all of us a ridin' 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 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 stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him at sun up where old Blue Rocket fell In a washout some twenty below Beneath his 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 days with the remuda, they're all It was about last April he rode into our camp Just a little Texas stray and all