Little Joe the Wrangler chords by Marty Robbins

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Verse 1
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Little Joe the Wrangler
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will wrangle nevermore
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His days with the roundup they are o'er
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Was a year ago last April when
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he rode into our camp
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Just a little Texas stray and nothing more
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Verse 2

Was late in the evening when

he rode into our camp

On the little Texas pony he called Chaw

With his brogan shoes and

overalls a tougher looking kid

You never in your life before had saw

Verse 3
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His saddle was a Texas
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kack built many years ago
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An OK spur on one foot lightly swung
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With his packroll in a cotton
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sack so loosely tied behind
And a canteen from his
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saddle horn was slung

Verse 4
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He said he had to leave his home
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his pa had married twice
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His new ma whipped him every day or two
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So he saddled up old Chaw one
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night and lit a shuck his way
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He said he'd try to paddle his own canoe
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Verse 5
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He said if we would give him work
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he'd do the best he could
Though he didn't know
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straight up about a cow
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So the boss he cut him out a
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mount and kindly put him on
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He sorta liked this little kid somehow
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Verse 6
He learned to wrangle horses an
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d  learned to know them all
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And get them in at daybreakk if he could
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And to trail the old chuck wagon
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and  always hitch the team
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And help to cook each evening rustle wood

Verse 7
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We had hardly reached the Pecos
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the weather it was fine
We were camped down on
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the south side in a draw
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When a northern commenced blowing
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and we doubled up our guards
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It took every one of us to hold them in

Verse 8
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Little Joe the Wrangler was called
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out with the rest
Scarcely had the little fellow
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reached the herd
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When the cattle they stampeded
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like a hailstorm on they fled
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And everyone was ridin' for the lead
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Verse 9
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Amid the streaks of lightnin'
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there was one horse up ahead
He was tryin' to check the
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leaders in their speed
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It was little Joe the Wrangler with
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a slicker o'er his head
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He was ridin' Old Blue Rocket in the lead
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Verse 10
At last we got them millin' and
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kinda quiteddown
And the extra guards back
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to the wagon went
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But there was one a missin'
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we could see it at a glance
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Was our little Texas stray
poor Wrangler Joe
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Verse 11
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Next morning just at daybreak we
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found where Rocket fell
Down in a washout twenty
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feet below
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Beneath his horse his life had gone
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his spung had run its knell
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Was our little Texas stray
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poor Wrangler Joe
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