Little Joe The Wrangler Chords by Red Steagall

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_ Little Joe the Wrangler [G] will [D] wrangle never more His days with the Ramuda's are [A] all done
_ _ [D] Long about last April when [G] he rode into [D] our camp Just a little [A] Texas gray and [D] all alone
_ [F#m] _ [G] Long late in the evening when [D] he rode into our camp On a little old brown pony he [A] called [Bm] Charles
[A] _ [D] His brogain shoes and cover [G] all the harder [D] looking kid You never in [A] your life had [D] seen before
_ His saddle was a southern [G] cackbill many [D] years ago Had an okay spur on one foot, [A] idly hung
_ [D] His hot roll and a cotton [G] sack was loosely [D] tied behind And a [A] canteen from the saddle [D] horn he'd slug
_ [G] Said he'd had to leave his home because his [D] pa had married twice And his new [Bm] ma beat [D] him every [A] day or two
So [D] he saddled up old Charles [G] one night and lit a [D] shot this way Thought he'd try and [A] paddle now [D] his own canoe
_ Said he'd try and do the best he [G] could if we'd only [D] give him work Though he didn't know straight up [A] about a [G] cow
[A] _ [D] So the bossy cut him out a [G] mountain [D] kinder to put him on Then we knew he [A] liked our little [D] stray son somehow
_ [G] Cause he taught him how to herd the [D] horses and learn to know them all And to round them up by daylight [A] if he [Bm] could
[A] _ [D] And to follow the chuck wagon [G] and to always [D] hitch the tee And to help the [A] customer old [D] Russell would
_ We'd driven to Red River [G] and the weather [D] it was fine We'd camped down on the south [A] side in a [G] bin
[A] When [D] the northern started blowing [G] and we called [D] the extra guard Cause it took all [A] hands to hold [D] the cattle in
_ [G] And now little Joe the wrangler [D] was called out with all the rest And barely had to kid God [A] to the [G] herd
[A] _ [D] When the cattle they stampeded [G] like a hailstorm [D] long they flew With all of [A] us a-riding [D] for the lead
_ Then between the streaks of lightning [G] we could see a [D] horse ahead Was little Joe the [A] wrangler in the lead
He [D] was riding old Blue Rocket [G] with his slicker [D] o'er his head And he's trying to [A] check the leaders in [D] their speed
Well [G] we finally got them milling [D] and they sort of quieted down And the extra guard back to the camp [A] did go
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_ [D] _ One of them was missing [G] we all [D] knew at a glance Was our little [A] Texas stray [D] poor wrangler Joe
Now we found him there at sunup [G] where old [D] Blue Rocket fell In a washout some twenty feet [A] below _
_ [D] _ Beneath his horse mashed to a pulp [G] his [D] furs had rung the net For our little [A] Texas stray poor [D] wrangler Joe
And [G] now little Joe the wrangler [D] the wrangler nevermore His days at the Ramuda [A] they're [Bm] all [A] done
_ [D] Was long about last April [G] when he rode into [D] our camp Just a little [A] Texas stray [G] and all alone _
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