Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His days with the remuda, all done It was long about last April, he into our camp Just a little Texas stray and all
It was late in the evening when he rode into our camp On a little old brown pony he called In his Brogan shoes and coveralls a lookin' kid You never in life 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 tied behind And a canteen the saddle horn he'd slung
Said he had to leave his home because his pa had married His new ma beat him day or two So he saddled up old one night and lit a shuck this way Thought he'd try and paddle now his own
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd only give him Though he didn't straight up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a mount and put him on And we knew he liked our little 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 chuck wagon and to always hitch the And to help the rustle wood
We had driven to red river and the 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 to hold the cattle in
Now Little Joe the Wrangler was out with all the rest And had the kid got to the herd When the cattle they like a hailstorm, on they flew all of us a ridin' for the lead
Between the streaks of lightnin' we could see a horse It was Little Joe the Wrangler in the 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 down The guard back to the camp did go All but one of them was missing and we all knew at a our little Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him there at sun up where old Blue Rocket In a washout some feet below Beneath his smashed to a pulp, his spur had rung the knell For our Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
Now Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle never more His days with the remuda, all done It was long about April he rode into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone