This book is included in the Self Reliance Ranching section.
Songs of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp
COLLECTED BY
JOHN A. LOMAX, B.A., M.A.
WITH A FOREWORD BY
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY; 1919
Foreword In collecting, arranging, editing, and preserving the "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp," my friend John Lomax has performed a real service to American literature and to America. No verse is closer to the soil than this; none more realistic in the best sense of that much-abused word; none more truly interprets and expresses a part of our national life. To understand and appreciate these lyrics one should hear Mr. Lomax talk about them and sing them; for they were made for the voice to pronounce and for the ears to hear, rather than for the lamplit silence of the library. They are as oral as the chants of Vachel Lindsay; and when one has the pleasure of listening to Mr. Lomax who loves these verses and the men who first sang them one reconstructs in imagination the appropriate figures and romantic setting. For nothing is so romantic as life itself, None of our illusions about life is so romantic as the truth. Hence the purest realism appeals to the mature imagination more powerfully than any impossible prettiness can do. The more we know of individual and universal life, the more we are excited and stimulated. And the collection of these poems is an addition to American Scholarship as well as to American Literature. It was a wise policy of the Faculty of Harvard University to grant Mr. Lomax a travelling fellowship, that he might have the necessary leisure to discover and to collect these verses; it is really "original research," as interesting and surely as valuable as much that passes under that name; for it helps every one of us to understand our own country. WM. LYON PHELPS. Yale University, July 27, 1919. Table of Contents. PART I. COWBOY YARNS OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS THE SHALLOWS OF THE FORD THE DANCE AT SILVER VALLEY THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL THE TEXAS COWBOY AND THE MEXICAN GREASER BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE RIDERS OF THE STARS LASCA THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL THE GLORY TRAIL HIGH CHIN BOB TO HEAR HIM TELL IT THE CLOWN'S BABY THE DRUNKEN DESPERADO MARTA OF MILRONE JACK DEMPSEY'S GRAVE THE CATTLE ROUND-UP PART II. THE COWBOY OFF GUARD A COWBOY'S WORRYING LOVE THE COWBOY AND THE MAID A COWBOY'S LOVE SONG A BORDER AFFAIR SNAGTOOTH SAL LOVE LYRICS OF A COWBOY THE BULL FIGHT THE COWBOY'S VALENTINE A COWBOY'S HOPELESS LOVE THE CHASE RIDING SONG OUR LITTLE COWGIRL I WANT MY TIME WHO'S THAT CALLING SO SWEET? SONG OF THE CATTLE TRAIL A COWBOY'S SON A COWBOY SONG A NEVADA COWPUNCEER TO HIS BELOVED THE COWBOY TO HIS FRIEND IN NEED WHEN BOB GOT THROWED COWBOY VERSUS BRONCHO WHEN YOU'RE THROWED PARDNERS THE BRONC THAT WOULDN'T BUST THE OL' COW HAWSE THE BUNK-HOUSE ORCHESTRA THE COWBOYS' DANCE SONG THE COWBOYS' CHRISTMAS BALL A DANCE AT THE RANCH AT A COWBOY DANCE THE COWBOYS' BALL PART III. COWBOY TYPES THE COWBOY BAR-Z ON A SUNDAY NIGHT A COWBOY RACE THE HABIT A RANGER THE INSULT "THE ROAD TO RUIN" THE OUTLAW THE DESERT WHISKEY BILL, A FRAGMENT DENVER JIM THE VIGILANTES THE BANDIT'S GRAVE THE OLD MACKENZIE TRAIL THE SHEEP-HERDER A COWBOY AT THE CARNIVAL THE OLD COWMAN THE GILA MONSTER ROUTE THE CALL OF THE PLAINS WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS A COWBOY TOAST RIDIN' UP THE ROCKY TRAIL FROM TOWN THE DISAPPOINTED TENDERFOOT A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE JUST A-RIDIN'! THE END OF THE TRAIL End of Preview. RETURN to Main Titles Index or Self Reliance Ranching
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