Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His days with the remuda, they're all It was about last April, he rode into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone
It was long late in the evening when he rode into our On a little old brown pony he called In his Brogan shoes and coveralls a lookin' kid You never in your life have before
His saddle was a southern kack many years ago An OK on one foot idly hung his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely tied behind And a canteen from the saddle he'd slung
Said he had to his home 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 shuck way he'd try and paddle now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd only give him he didn't know straight up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a and kinda put him on And we knew he liked our stray somehow
Well, he taught him how to herd the horses, 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 to red river and the weather it was fine We were camped down on the side in a bend When a norther started blowin', we called the guard 'Cause it took all hands to 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 With all of us a for the lead
the streaks of lightnin' we could see a horse ahead It was Little Joe the Wrangler in the He was riding old Blue Rocket with a o'er his head He was trying to check the leaders in their
We got 'em millin' and they sort of quieted down The extra guard to the camp did go All but one of them was missing and we all at a glance T'was our little stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him at sun up where old Blue Rocket fell In a washout some twenty feet Beneath his smashed to a pulp, his spur had rung the knell For our little Texas stray boy Joe
Now Little Joe the Wrangler, wrangle never more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about last April he into our camp Just a little Texas and all alone