Vulgar words in Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads (Page 1)
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There's old "Aunt Jess," that hard old cuss, Who never would repent; He never missed a single meal, Nor never paid a cent.
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DAN TAYLOR Dan Taylor is a rollicking cuss, A frisky son of a gun, He loves to court the maidens And he savies how it's done.
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It's out on the road With a very heavy load, With a very awkward team And a very muddy road, You may whip and you may holler, But if you cuss it's on the sly; Then whack the cattle on, boys,-- Root hog or die.
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I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL Oh, I'm a good old rebel, that's what I am; And for this land of freedom, I don't care a damn, I'm glad I fought agin her, I only wish we'd won, And I don't axe any pardon for anything I've done.
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He took a cup of coffee and some biscuits and some beans, And then began to talk and tell about foreign kings and queens,-- About the Spanish war and fighting on the seas With guns as big as steers and ramrods big as trees,-- And about old Paul Jones, a mean, fighting son of a gun, Who was the grittiest cuss that ever pulled a gun.
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But I never spilled a cuss word and I never spilled a squeal-- I was building reputation on that gol-darned wheel.
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You all know how it is When once you get behind, You never get even again Till you damn steal them blind.
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I was an honest man When I first took to the road, I would not swear an oath, Nor would I tap a load; But now you ought to see my mules When I begin to cuss, They flop their ears and wiggle their tails And pull the load or bust.
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So we get up and are out on the way But it's damn few horses we find before day.
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My love has a gun that has gone to the bad, Which makes poor old Jimmy feel pretty damn sad; For the gun it shoots high and the gun it shoots low, And it wobbles about like a bucking bronco.
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DRINKING SONG Drink that rot gut, drink that rot gut, Drink that red eye, boys; It don't make a damn wherever we land, We hit her up for joy.
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Kin cuss an' fight an' hold or free 'em, But I know them mavericks when I see 'em,-- Way down south in Dixie, Oh, boys, Ho.
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But Jack kept reasoning with him Till the poor cuss gave a yell And lowed he'd been mistaken In his views concerning hell.
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To the dickens with your city Where they herd the brainless brats, On a range so badly crowded There ain't room to cuss the cat.
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Well, the cuss stayed around for two or three weeks, till at last he was ready to go; And that cuss out yonder bein' too poor to move, he gimme,--the cuss had no dough.
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For that was what the other cuss called him,--just Freckles, no more or no less,-- His color,--couldn't describe it,--something like a paint shop in distress.
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My love has a gun that has gone to the bad, Which makes poor old Jimmy feel pretty damn sad; For the gun it shoots high and the gun it shoots low, And it wobbles about like a bucking broncho.
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He's always primping with a pocket looking-glass, From the top to the bottom he's a bold Jackass.
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Now, bear in mind before you start, That you'll eat jerked beef, not ham, And antelope steak, Oh cuss the stuff!
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Old raw-hide shoes are hell on corns While tramping through the sands, And driving jackass by the tail,-- Damn the overland!
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"Yes, and I don't care a copper colored damn."