Little Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle more His days with the remuda, they're all It was long about April, he rode into our camp a little Texas stray and all alone
It was long late in the evening when he into our camp On a little old brown pony he called In his shoes and coveralls a harder lookin' kid You never in your life have seen
His saddle was a southern kack built years ago An OK spur on one idly hung With his bed roll in a cotton sack, was loosely behind And a canteen from the saddle horn he'd
Said he had to his home because his pa had married twice His new ma beat him day or two So he saddled up old Shaw one night and lit a this way he'd try and paddle now his own canoe
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd only him work Though he didn't know up about a cow So the he cut him out a mount and kinda put him on And we knew he liked our little somehow
Well, he taught him how to herd the horses, to know 'em all And to get 'em in by daylight if he And to follow the chuck and to always hitch the team 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 norther started blowin', we called the guard 'Cause it took all hands to hold the in
Now Little Joe the was called out with all the rest And had the kid got to the herd When the cattle they stampeded like a hailstorm, on they all of us a ridin' for the lead
Between the streaks of lightnin' we could see a ahead It was Little Joe the in the lead He was riding old Blue Rocket with a o'er his head He was to check the leaders in their speed
We finally got 'em millin' and they of quieted down The extra guard back to the 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 at sun up where 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 stray boy Wrangler Joe
Now Joe the Wrangler, he'll wrangle never more His with the remuda, they're all done It was long about last April he rode into our Just a little Texas stray and all