Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll never more His days the remuda, they're all done It was about last April, he rode into our camp Just a little Texas stray and all
It was late in the evening when he rode into our camp On a old brown pony he called Shaw In his Brogan and coveralls a harder lookin' kid You in your life have seen before
His saddle was a southern kack built years ago An OK spur on one foot idly With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was tied behind And a canteen from the saddle horn he'd
Said he had to leave his home because his pa had twice His new ma him every day or two So he saddled up old Shaw one and lit a shuck this way Thought he'd try and now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he if we'd only give him work Though he didn't know up about a cow So the he cut him out a mount and kinda put him on And we he liked our little stray somehow
Well, he taught him how to herd the horses, learned to 'em all And to get 'em in by daylight if he And to follow the chuck wagon and to always the team And to help the carsonaro rustle
We had to red river and the weather it was fine We were down on the south side 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 called out all the rest And had the kid got to the herd When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm, on flew all of us a ridin' for the lead
Between the streaks of lightnin' we could see a 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 they sort of quieted The extra guard back to the 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 there at sun up where old Rocket fell In a washout twenty 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 last April he rode into our camp Just a little Texas stray and all