Little Joe the Wrangler, wrangle never more His with the remuda, they're all done It was about last April, he rode into our camp Just a little Texas 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 have seen before
His saddle was a southern kack built many ago An OK spur on one foot hung With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely behind And a canteen from the horn he'd 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 night and lit a this way he'd try and paddle now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he if we'd only give him work he didn't know straight up about a cow So the he cut him out a mount and kinda put him on And we knew he liked our 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 wagon and to always hitch the And to the carsonaro rustle wood
We had driven to red and the weather it was fine We were camped on the south side in a bend When a norther blowin', we called the extra guard 'Cause it took all hands to hold the in
Now Little Joe the was called 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 Joe the Wrangler in the lead He was old Blue Rocket with a slicker o'er his head He was trying to check the leaders in their
We finally got 'em millin' and they sort of quieted The guard back to the camp did go All but one of was missing 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 some twenty feet below Beneath his smashed to a pulp, his spur had rung the knell For our little Texas stray boy Joe
Now Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle never more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long last April he rode into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone