Stuart Watkins
Just a cowboy looking for work
not a job this old boy can’t do
buck ‘em, train ‘em, do it right, too
teach em how to cut a herd
Look too long in the tooth for our kinda spread
Well, if it’s a chuckwagon cook you need
in the day I’ve been known to make a good stew,
flapjacks, bacon, strong coffee to serve the crew
keeps ranchers happy and willing to ride
Our cook been with us nigh on ten years
Chaps need mending and saddles need tending
needle and thread is something I’ve been known to do
even mend a barbed wire fence that’s been tore in two
don’t mind sleeping under a tarp in the rain
Put your gear in the bunkhouse, we’ll take you on
Range boss, you made an old cowboy happy
back in Laredo they said my skills had passed me by
no work could be found under the Texas sky
you hired a worker, cowboy, man willing to work
Here; take my hand, you’re my kind of rancher man