Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle never His days with the remuda, 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 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 years ago An OK on one foot idly hung With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely tied 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 night and lit a shuck way Thought try and paddle now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he could if 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 our little 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 wagon and to always hitch the team And to help the carsonaro rustle
We had driven to red and the weather it was fine We were camped down on the side in a bend When a norther started blowin', we the extra guard 'Cause it all hands to hold the cattle in
Now Joe the Wrangler was called out with all the rest And barely had the kid got to the When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm, on 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 with a slicker o'er his He was to check the leaders in their speed
We finally got 'em millin' and they of quieted down The extra guard back to the did go All but one of them was and we all knew at a glance T'was our Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him there at sun up where old Blue fell In a washout some twenty below Beneath his horse smashed to a pulp, his had rung the knell For our little Texas boy Wrangler Joe
Now Little Joe the Wrangler, wrangle never more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about last April he rode our camp a little Texas stray and all alone