Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll never more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about last April, he rode into our Just a little Texas stray and all
It was long in the evening when he rode into our camp On a old brown pony 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 idly With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely behind And a canteen from the horn he'd slung
he had to leave his home because his pa had married twice His new ma him every day or two So he up old Shaw one night and lit a shuck this way Thought he'd try and now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd only him work Though he didn't straight up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a and kinda put him on And we knew he liked our little somehow
Well, he taught him how to herd the horses, to know 'em all And to get 'em in by daylight if he And to the chuck wagon and to always hitch the team And to help the rustle wood
We had driven to red and the weather it was fine We were camped down on the south in a bend When a norther started blowin', we called the extra 'Cause it took all to hold the cattle in
Now Little Joe the 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
Between the streaks of lightnin' we could see a horse It was Joe the Wrangler in the lead He was old Blue Rocket with a slicker o'er his head He was trying to the leaders in their speed
We finally got 'em millin' and they sort of quieted The extra back to the camp did go All but one of them was and we all knew at a glance T'was our little Texas boy Wrangler Joe
We him there at sun up where old Blue Rocket fell In a washout some feet below Beneath his horse smashed to a pulp, his spur had the knell For our Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
Now Little Joe the Wrangler, wrangle never more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about last he rode into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone