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Little Joe the Wrangler
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Wikipedia article
'Little Joe the Wrangler' is a classic American cowboy song, written by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp. It appeared in Thorp's 1908 'Songs of the Cowboys', which was the first published collection of cowboy songs.Thorp, N. (1921) 'Songs of the Cowboys', p. 96.: "'Little Joe, The Wrangler', by N. Howard Thorp. Written by me on the trail of herd of O Cattle from Chimney Lake, New Mexico, to Higgins, Texas, 1898. ... It was copyrighted and appeared in my first edition of 'Songs of the Cowboys', published in 1908. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
The song is about a solitary orphan who is taken in by a group of cowboys and put to work at a man's job. Little Joe's life ends tragically when his horse suffers a fall during a stampede, crushing the young fellow beneath him. The song has been sung over and over in cow camps for over a century, and has been recorded by many Western singers.
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