A Cowboy's Sweetheart.....

A Cowboy’s Sweetheart

 

Oh, the last steer has been branded

And the last beef has been shipped,

And I’m free to roam the prairies

That the round-up crew has stripped.

 

I’m free to think of Susie …

Fairer than the stars above …

She’s this cowboy’s sweetheart,

My little turtle dove.

 

Sometimes I think I’m loco

And only fit for herdin’ sheep,

‘Cause I only think of Susie

When I’m awake or dead asleep,

I’m wearin’ Cupid’s hobbles,

And I’m tied to Love’s stake-pin,

And when my heart was branded

The irons sunk deep in.

 

I’ll ride to see her on Sunday,

A’wearin’ my wooly chaps,

I’ll take a good horse for Susie

So’z we can ride & talk o’er our plans.

 

- 1900s poem, cowboy author unknown