THE PECOS STREAM - from Jack Thorp's 1908 Songs of the Cowboys

THE  PECOS  STREAM     A cowboys life is a weary dreary life     Some people think it free from all care     Its rounding up cattle from morning to night     On the lone prairie so drear     When the spring work comes in then our troubles begin     The weather being fierce and cold     We get almost froze with the water on our clothes     And the cattle we can scarcely hold.     Just about four o'clock the cook will holler out     "Roll our boys its almost day"     Through his broken slumbers the puncher he will ask     Has the short summer night passed away.     "Saddle up," "Saddle Up," the boss will holler out     When we're camped by the Pecos stream     Where the wolves and the owls with their terrifying howls     Disturb us in our midnight dreams.     Once I loved to roam but now I stay at home     All you punchers take my advice     Sell your bridle and your saddle quit your roaming and travels     And tie on to a cross eyed wife.     from Jack Thorp's 1908 Songs of the Cowboys