The Boozer
Cut this out of a Colorado newspaper
I'm a howler from the prairies of the West !
If you want to die with terror look at me !
I'm chain-lightning -- if I ain't, may I be blessed !
I'm the snorter of the boundless prairie !
He's a killer and a hater !
He's the great annihilator !
He's a terror of the boundless prairie !
I'm the snoozer from the upper trail !
I'm the reveler in murder and in gore !
I can bust more Pullman coaches on the rail
Than any one who's worked the job before.
He's a snorter and a snoozer !
He's the great trunk line abuser !
He's the man who puts the sleeper on the rail !
I'm the double-jawed hyena from the East !
I'm the blazing bloody blizzard of the States !
I'm the celebrated slugger ; I'm the Beast !
I can snatch a man bald-headed while he waits !
He's a double-jawed hyena !
He's the villain of the scena !
He can snatch a man bald-headed while he waits !
--N. Howard "Jack" Thorp, compiler
(Songs of the Cowboy, originally
published New Mexico, 1908)
Copyright 1908 & 1921.
Public Domain.
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