Little Joe The Wrangler Chords by Chris Ledoux

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Little Joe the Wrangler, [F] he'll wrangle [C] nevermore.
His days with the remuda, they're all [G] done. _
[C] It was long about last April, [F] he rode [C] into our camp.
Just a little [G] Texas stray and all [C] alone. _
[F] It was long late in the evening when [C] he rode into our camp.
On a little old brown pony he [G] called Shaw. _
[C] In his brogand shoes and [F] coveralls, a harder [C] looking kid
you never [G] in your life have [C] seen before. _
_ His saddle was a southern cac, [F] built many [C] years ago.
_ An okay spur on one foot [G] idly hung. _
[C] With his bedroll in a cotton sack, [F] was loosely [C] tied behind.
In a [Em] canteen from the saddle horn [C] he'd slung. _
[F] Said he had to leave his home because [C] his pa had married twice.
His new ma beat him [Em] every day or two. _
[C] So he saddled up old Shaw one [F] night and lit a shut [C] this way.
Thought he'd try and [G] paddle now his [C] own canoe.
_ Said he'd try to do the best he could [F] if we'd only give [C] him work.
Though he didn't know straight up [G] about a cow.
_ [C] So the bossy cut him out a [F] mountain kind to [C] put him on.
And we knew he [G] liked our little [C] stray somehow.
_ [F] Well he taught him how to herd the [C] horses and learn to know them all.
And to get them in the daylight [G] if he could.
_ [C] And to follow the chuck wagon [F] and to always [C] hitch the team.
And to help the [G] cost narrow [C] Russell. _
_ We'd driven to Red River [F] and the weather [C] it was fine.
We were camped down on the south [G] side in a bend.
_ [C] When a norther started blowing [F] and we called the [C] extra guard.
Because it took all hands [G] to hold the [C] cattle in. _
_ Now [F] little Joe the wrangler [C] was called out with all the rest.
Barely had the kid got [G] to the herd.
_ [C] When the cattle they stampeded [F] like a hailstorm [C] on the flu.
With all of [G] us riding [C] for the lead.
_ _ Between the streaks of lightning [F] we could see a horse [C] ahead.
It was little Joe the wrangler in the [G] lead. _
_ [C] He was riding old blue rocket [F] with a slicker o'er his [C] head.
He was trying to check [G] the leaders and their [C] speed. _
_ [F] We finally got them milling and [C] they sort of quieted down.
The extra guard back to the camp [G] did go.
_ [C] All but one of them was missing.
[F] We all knew at a [C] glance.
It was our little Texas stray [G] boy, [C] Wrangler Joe. _
We found him there at sunup [F] where old blue rocket [C] fell.
He washed out some twenty feet [G] below. _
_ [C] Beneath his horse mashed to a pole.
[F] He [C] spurred and run the nail for our little Texas [G] stray boy, [C] Wrangler Joe. _
_ Now little Joe the wrangler [F] he'll wrangle never [C] more.
Days with the remuda they're [G] all done.
It [C] was long about last April [F] he rode [C] into our camp.
Just a little Texas [G] stray and all [F] along.
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