Little Joe the Wrangler, wrangle never more His days with the remuda, all done It was long about April, he rode into our camp Just a little Texas and all alone
It was long late in the evening when he rode into our On a little old brown pony he Shaw In his shoes and coveralls a harder lookin' kid You never in life have seen 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
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 Shaw one night and lit a shuck way he'd try and paddle now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd only give him Though he didn't know up about a cow So the boss he cut him out a mount and put him on And we knew he liked our stray somehow
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 hitch the And to help the carsonaro wood
We had driven to red river and the 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 to hold the cattle in
Now Little Joe the Wrangler was out with all the rest And barely had the kid got to the the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm, on they flew With all of us a ridin' for the
the streaks of lightnin' we could see a horse ahead It was Little Joe the in the lead He was riding old Blue Rocket with a slicker o'er his He was trying to the leaders in their speed
We finally got 'em and they sort of quieted 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 little Texas stray boy Joe
We found him there at sun up where old Blue Rocket In a washout twenty feet below Beneath his horse smashed to a pulp, his had rung the knell For our Texas stray boy Wrangler Joe
Now Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His days the remuda, they're all done It was long about April he rode into our camp Just a little Texas stray and all