Cowboy Joe’s Last Ride Track

Cowboy Joe’s Last Ride (Larry W. Jones 09/15/2006) (song #4014)
Riding out on a west bound trail
Galloping through the night
Cowboy Joe with two bags of mail
Was riding for his life
And the loudness of his fevered call
Rang through the night in vain
He spurred his horse on through the draw
As he wiped away the rain
No warm camp fire would him befriend
No Navajo blanket could he hold
Nothing to face but the howling wind
And the rain that shivered to his soul
When I hear that wind a-blowin’
I see him riding through the fray
Knowing not where he was going
For the trail ended where he lay
Hey, ho—Cowboy Joe (yodel)
(instrumental)
On the Pony Express the rain was falling
As the horse kept galloping with the mail
Brave Cowboy Joe had found his calling
But now Joe lay dying beside the trail
As his pony sped through the darkness
Up the trail of the Great Divide
Nobody knew that Cowboy Joe
Had carried the mail on his last ride
Hey, ho—Cowboy Joe (yodel)