Songs Of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp

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The Cowboy's Dance Song
Tell you what the joys of heaven ain't a cussed cir-
cumstance
To the hug-a-mania pleasures of a high-toned dance.
When they struck the old cotillion on the music bill
of fare,
Every bit of devil in me seemed to burst out on a
tear.
I fetched a cowboy whoop and started in to rag,
And cut her with my trotters till the floor began to
sag;
Swung my pardner till she got sea-sick and rushed
for a seat;'
I balanced to the next one but she dodged me slick
and neat—
Tell you what, I shook the creases from my go-to-
meeting pants
When I put the cowboy trimmings on that high-toned
dance.
James Barton Adams.
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