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Michael Martin Murphey - Heart Knows The Truth
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Michael Martin Murphey - Maybe This Time
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Michael Martin Murphey - Red River Valley
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Michael Martin Murphey - Carolina In The Pines
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Michael Martin Murphey - Desperation Road
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Michael Martin Murphey - Little Joe The Wrangler
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Michael Martin Murphey - Talking To The Wrong Man
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Michael Martin Murphey - Tying Knots In The Devil's Tail
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Michael Martin Murphey - Big Iron
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Michael Martin Murphey - Boy From The Country
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Michael Martin Murphey - Cherokee Fiddle
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Michael Martin Murphey - Children Of The Wild World
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Michael Martin Murphey - Cool Water
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Michael Martin Murphey - Cowboy Logic
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Michael Martin Murphey - Cowboy Pride
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Michael Martin Murphey - Crystal
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Michael Martin Murphey - Don't Count The Rainy Days
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Michael Martin Murphey - Family Tree
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Michael Martin Murphey - Fiddlin' Man
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Michael Martin Murphey - Fort Worth I Love You
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Michael Martin Murphey - From The Word Go
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Michael Martin Murphey - Geronimo's Cadillac
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Michael Martin Murphey - Got To Pay The Fiddler
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Michael Martin Murphey - Happy Trails
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Michael Martin Murphey - Home On The Range
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Michael Martin Murphey - I'm Gonna Miss You Girl
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Michael Martin Murphey - Jack Of Diamonds
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Michael Martin Murphey - Jukebox
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Michael Martin Murphey - Land Of Enchantment
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Michael Martin Murphey - Land Of The Navajo
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Michael Martin Murphey - Let The Cowboy Dance
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Michael Martin Murphey - Lone Cowboy
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Michael Martin Murphey - Long Line Of Love
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Michael Martin Murphey - Lost River
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Michael Martin Murphey - Love Affairs
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Michael Martin Murphey - Never Givin' Up On Love
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Michael Martin Murphey - New Old Love
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Michael Martin Murphey - Old Chisholm Trial
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Michael Martin Murphey - Old Horse
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Michael Martin Murphey - Pilgrims On The Way (matthew's Song)
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Michael Martin Murphey - Ponies
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Michael Martin Murphey - Radio Land
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Michael Martin Murphey - Renegade
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Michael Martin Murphey - River Of Time
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Michael Martin Murphey - Route 66
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Michael Martin Murphey - Running Blood
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Michael Martin Murphey - Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
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Michael Martin Murphey - Still Got The Fire
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Michael Martin Murphey - Strawberry Roan
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Michael Martin Murphey - Texas Morning
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Michael Martin Murphey - The Old Chisolm Trail
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Michael Martin Murphey - The Streets Of Laredo
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Michael Martin Murphey - The Yellow Rose Of Texas
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Michael Martin Murphey - Unfinished Symphony
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Michael Martin Murphey - Vanishing Breed
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Michael Martin Murphey - West Texas Highway
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Michael Martin Murphey - What Am I Doing Hanging Round
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Michael Martin Murphey - What She Wants
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Michael Martin Murphey - What's Forever For
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Michael Martin Murphey - When The Work's All Done This Fall
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Michael Martin Murphey - Wild Bird
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Michael Martin Murphey - Wildfire
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Michael Martin Murphey - Woodsmoke In The Wind
Little Joe The Wrangler
Michael Martin Murphey
His days with the remuda, they're all done
It was long about last April he rode into our camp
Just a little Texas stray and all alone
It was long late in the evening when he rode into our camp
On a little old brown pony he called Shaw
In his brogan shoes and coveralls, a harder lookin' kid
You never in you life have seen before.
His saddle was a Sother kack built many years ago
An OK spur on one foot idly hung
With his bed roll in a cotton sack was loosely tied behind
And a canteen from the saddle horn he'd slung.
Said he had to leave his home because his paw had married twice
His new maw beat him every day or two
So he saddled up old Shaw one night and lit a shuck this way
Thought he'd try and paddle now his own canoe.
Said he'd try to do the best he could if we'd only give him work
Though he didn't know straight up about a cow
So the boss, he cut him out a mount and kinda put him on
And we knew he liked our little stray somehow.
Well, he taught him how to heard the horses and learned to know 'em all
And to get 'em in by daylight if he could
And to follow the chuck wagon and to always hitch the team
And to help the carsonaro rustle wood.
We had driven to Red River and the weather it was fine
We were camped down on the south side of the bend
When a Norther started blowin' we called the extra guard
'Cause it took all hands to hold the cattle in.
Now little Joe the wrangler was called out like the rest
Barely had the kid got to the heard
When the cattle, they stampeded - like a hailstorm on they flew
With all of us a ridin' for the lead.
Between the streaks of lightnin' we could see a horse ahead
It was little Joe the wrangler in the lead
He was riding old Blue Rocket with a slicker o'er his head
And he's trying to check the leaders in their speed.
We finally got'em millin' and they sort of quieted down
The extra guard back to the camp did go
But one of them was missing and we all knew at a glance
'Twas our little Texas strayboy, wrangler Joe.
We found him there at sun up where old Blue Rocket fell
In some washout twenty feet below
Beneath his horse smashed to a pulphis spur had rung the knell
For our little Texas stray bos, wrangler Joe.
Little Joe the wrangler, he'll wrangle never more
His days with the remuda, they're all done
It was long about last April he rode into our camp
Just a little Texas stray and all alone