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The Cowboy Christmas Ball
Michael Martin Murphey
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Way out in West Texas where the Clear Fork waters flow
Where the cattle are up browsing and them Spanish ponies grow
Where the Northers come a-whistling and the old dust devils roll
And the prairie dogs are sneezing and freezing from the cold
Where the lonesome tawny prairies melt into the airy streams
And the double mountains slumber in heavenly kind of dreams
Where the antelope are grazing and the lonesome plovers call
It was there that I attended the Cowboy Christmas Ball
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The music was a fiddle and a lively tambourine
And a big bass violin imported by stage from Abilene
Now the room was togged out gorgeous with mistletoe and shawls
And the candles flickered frescoes all around them merry walls
Where the womenfolk looked lonely and the boys looked kind of tree'd
Till the leader commenced to yelling "Hey boys let's all stampede"
And the music started sighing and a-wailing through the hall
As a kind of introduction to the Cowboy Christmas Ball
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The leader was a feller that come from Swenson's ranch
Yep they called him Windy Bill from Little Dead Man's branch
When he commenced to holler "Now fellers stake your pens
Lock horns with all them heifers and wrestle 'em just like men"
"Salute them lovely critters now swing 'em and let 'em go"
"And climb the grapevine round and round now hands all do-si-do"
"You mavericks join the round-up just skip the waterfall"
Boy it was getting active at the Cowboy Christmas Ball
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The boys were tolerable skittish and the ladies powerful neat
That old bass violin music made us jump in with both feet
That wailing frisky fiddle I never will forget
And Windy Bill kept singing and I believe I hear him yet
"Oh yes boys chase them squirrels cut 'em to the side"
"Doc Hollis to the center now cross beat Charlie's bride"
"Per-own your gentle kittens now rope and balance all"
Hey it was getting happy at the Cowboy Christmas Ball
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The dust rose fast and furious and we all just galloped round
Till the scenery got so giddy that Z Bar Dick went down
We buckled to our partners and told them to hold on
And shook our hooves like lightning until the early dawn
Don't tell me about cotillions or polkas no siree
That world in Nansen City it takes the cake for me
Oh Bill I won't forget you and I often will recall
That lively gaited soiree called the Cowboy Christmas Ball
Oh no I won't forget it the Cowboy Christmas Ball
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