Sierry Robs (A gift for Rob's B-day, based on cowboy poem "Sierra Petes" by Gail Gardner *RECORDED IN A HURRY*)
Away up high in the Sierry Petes, Where the yeller pines grows tall, Ole Sandy Bob an' Buster Jig, Had a rodeer camp last fall.
Oh, they taken their hosses and runnin' irons And mabbe a dawg or two, An' they 'lowed they'd brand all the long-yered calves, That come within their view.
And any old doggie that flapped long yeres, An' didn't bush up by day, Got his long yeres whittled an' his old hide scorched, In a most artistic way.
Now one fine day ole Sandy Bob, He throwed his seago down, "I'm sick of this cow-pyrography, And I 'lows I'm a-goin' to town."
So they saddles up an' hits 'em a lope, Fer it warnt no sight of a ride, And them was the days when a Buckeroo Could ile up his inside.
Oh, they starts her in at the Kaintucky Bar, At the head of Whisky Row, And they winds up down by the Depot House, Some forty drinks below.
They then sets up and turns around, And goes her the other way, An' to tell you the Gawd-forsaken truth, Them boys got stewed that day.
As they was a-ridin' back to camp, A-packin' a pretty good load, Who should they meet but the Devil himself, A-prancin' down the road.
"You ornery cowboy skunks, You'd better hunt yer holes, Fer I've come up from Hell's Rim Rock, To gather in yer souls."
"Old Devil be damned, We boys is kinda tight, But you ain't a-goin' to gather no cowboy souls, 'Thout you has some kind of a fight."
So Sandy Bob punched a hole in his rope, And flung her straight and true, He lapped it over the Devil's horns, An' took his dallies too.
Now Buster jig was a riata man, His gut-line coiled up neat, So he shaken her out an' he built him a loop, An' he lassed the Devil's hind feet.
Oh, they stretched him out an' they tailed him down, While the irons was a-gettin hot, They cropped and swaller-forked his yeres, Then they branded him up a lot.
They pruned him up with a de-hornin' saw, An' they knotted his tail fer a joke, They then rid off and left him there, Necked to a Black-Jack oak.
If you're ever up high in the Sierry Petes, An' you hear one Hell of a wail, You'll know it's that Devil a-bellerin' around, About them knots in his tail.1