Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His days the remuda, they're all done It was long about last April, he rode into our a little Texas stray and all alone
It was long late in the evening when he rode our camp On a little old brown pony he called In his Brogan shoes and coveralls a lookin' kid You in your life have seen before
His saddle was a southern kack many years ago An OK spur on one foot idly With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was tied behind And a from the saddle 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 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 Though he didn't straight up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a mount and 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 the chuck wagon and to always hitch the team And to help the rustle wood
We had to red river and the weather it was fine We were camped down on the south side in a When a norther started blowin', we the extra guard 'Cause it took all hands to hold the in
Now Joe the Wrangler was called out with all the rest And barely had the kid got to the When the cattle stampeded like a hailstorm, on they flew With all of us a ridin' for the
Between the streaks of we could see a horse ahead It was Little Joe the Wrangler in the He was riding old Blue Rocket a slicker o'er his head He was trying to check the leaders in their
We finally got 'em millin' and they sort of quieted The extra guard to the camp did go All but one of them was and we all knew at a glance our little Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
We found him there at sun up where old Rocket fell In a washout some twenty 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 never more His days the remuda, they're all done It was long about last April he into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone