Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His with the remuda, they're all done It was long about last April, he into our camp Just a little Texas and all alone
It was long late in the evening when he rode our camp On a little old brown he called Shaw In his Brogan shoes and coveralls a harder kid You never in your life have before
His saddle was a southern kack built years ago An OK spur on one foot hung With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely tied And a canteen from the saddle horn slung
he had to leave 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 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 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 little stray
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 chuck wagon and to always 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 the extra guard 'Cause it took all to hold the cattle in
Now Little Joe the Wrangler was called out with all the And had the kid got to the herd When the cattle they stampeded a hailstorm, on they flew With all of us a for the lead
Between the streaks of lightnin' we could see a ahead It was Little Joe the Wrangler in the He was riding old Rocket with a slicker o'er his head He was trying to check the leaders in speed
We finally got 'em millin' and they sort of down The extra guard to the camp did go All but one of was missing and we all knew at a glance T'was our Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him there at sun up old Blue Rocket fell In a washout some feet 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, he'll wrangle more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about last April he into our camp Just a little Texas stray and all