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Little Joe the Wrangler is a classic American cowboy song, written by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp. It appeared in Thorp's 1908 Songs of the Cowboys, which was the first published collection of cowboy songs.[1] The tune comes from the song 'Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane' written by Will Hayes in 1871. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[2]
The song is about a solitary runaway who is taken in by a group of cowboys and put to work at a man's job. Little Joe's life ends tragically when his horse suffers a fall during a stampede, crushing the young fellow beneath him. The song has been sung over and over in cow camps for over a century, and has been recorded by many Western singers.
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Still, it's nice for folk music to be able to assign a date once inawhile. So when I realized that the well-known cowboy song LittleJoethe Wrangler (Laws B5) reached the century mark this year, IdecidedI had to include it.
It is almost certain that this song was written by N. Howard Thorpin1898. His own account is that it was "written by me on trail of herdof O Cattle from Chimney Lake, New Mexico, to Higgins, Texas, 1898."Thorp published the piece in Songs of the Cowboys (thefirst-evercollection of cowboy music) in 1908, using the well-known LittleOldLog Cabin in the Lane for a melody.
The only reason for doubting this account is that John A. Lomaxpublishedthe piece in Cowboy Songs in 1910. Chances are, though, thatLomaxsimply stole it; it's known that he stole other songs from the Thorpbook(which consisted primarily of traditional songs).
Now, Little Joe the wrangler was called out with the rest,
The lad had scarcely gotten to that herd,
When those cattle they stampeded -- like a hail storm 'long they fled
And all of us was ridin' for the lead.
At last we got them millin' and kindly settled down,
When the extra guard back to the camp did go.
But one of them was missin', we saw it at a glance;
'Twas our little Texas stray, poor wrangler Joe.
Next mornin', just at daybreak, we found where Rocket fell
Down in the washout twenty feet below.
Beneath the horse's body, a-lying where he fell,
Was our little Texas stray, poor wrangler Joe.
Here are some polka, two-step, and jitterbug songs that can help you gain a perspective as to what songs are generally for which step. Due to copyright, we cannot distribute these songs but we can point you in the right direction. Good luck and have fun dancing!
As a general rule, you can two step to any polka song, but you cannot polka to every two step song. Also, you should not two step or polka to the jitterbug songs listed as they are too fast and more difficult to maintain smoothness.
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