Little Joe, the Wrangler Chords by Don Edwards

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[D] Now little Joe the Wrangler [G] he'll wrangle [D] never more
His days with a Ramuda [A] they are o'er _
[D] T'was a year ago last April [G] when he rode in [D] to our camp
Just a little [A] Texas stray and [D] all alone _
T'was late in the evening [G] when he rode up to the [D] herd
On a little old brown pony he called [A] Chaw _
[D] And with brogain shoes and [G] overalls
A tougher [D] looking kid you had never in your [A] life had [D] ever saw _
[G] Now his saddle was a Texas [D] cact built many years ago
And an old cave spur on one foot [A] idly hung _
[D] With his hot roll in a cotton sack [G] loosely [D] tied behind
And a canteen [A] from his saddle [D] horn slung _
Now he said he had to leave his home [G] his pa had [D] married twice
And his new ma whipped him every [A] day or two _ _
[D] So he saddled up old Chaw one night [G] and lit a shut [D] this way
Now he's trying [A] hard to paddle his [D] own canoe _
[G] Now he said if we would give him work [D] he'd do the best he could
Though he didn't know straight up [A] about a cow
So [D] the bossy cut him out a [G] mouth and kindly [D] put him on
For he sort of [A] liked the little kid [D] somehow _ _
Now he learned to jingle horses [G] and to know them [D] one and all
And to get them in by daybreak [A] if he could _ _
[D] And to follow the chuck wagon [G] and to always hitch [D] the tea
And to help the [A] costly narrow Russell [D] Wood _
[G] Now he'd driven to Red River [D] the weather being fine
We were camped out on the south side in [A] a bend
When [D] a norther commenced a-blowing [G] so we doubled up our [D] guard
For it took all [A] hands to hold [D] the cattle in _
Now little Joe the wrangler [G] he was called out [D] with the rest
And though the kid had scarcely reached [A] the herd _
[D] When the cattle they stampeded [G] like a hailstorm along [D] they fled
While we were all [A] riding for [D] the lead
Now [G] amidst the streaks of lightning there was [D] one horse up ahead
It was little Joe the wrangler in [A] the lead
He [D] was riding old Blue Rocket [G] with a slicker o'er his [D] head
Trying to check [A] the leaders in [D] their speed
Now he finally got a milling [G] and kind of [D] quieted down
When the extra guard back to the [A] wagon rode _
[D] Oh but there was one a-missing [G] and we knew it [D] at a glance
It was our little [A] Texas stray poor [D] wrangler Joe _
[G] Next morning just at daybreak [D] we had found where Rocket fell
Down in a washout twenty [A] feet below
And [D] beneath his horse smashed to a [G] pulp his spur head
[D] Wrong the nail was our little [A] Texas stray poor [D] wrangler Joe _
_ _ Now little Joe the wrangler [G] he will wrangle [D] never more
And his days [Bm] with the Ramuda they [A] are o [Em]'er
[D] T'was a year ago last April [G] when he rode into [D] our camp
Just a little [A] Texas stray and [D] all alone
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