Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

<p class="tit-song">POOR LONESOME COWBOY <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page032" name="page032"></SPAN>(p. 032)</span></p> <p>I ain't got no father,<br/> I ain't got no father,<br/> I ain't got no father,<br/> To buy the clothes I wear.</p> <p class="add2em">I'm a poor, lonesome cowboy,<br/> I'm a poor, lonesome cowboy,<br/> I'm a poor, lonesome cowboy<br/> And a long ways from home.</p> <p>I ain't got no mother,<br/> I ain't got no mother,<br/> I ain't got no mother<br/> To mend the clothes I wear.</p> <p>I ain't got no sister,<br/> I ain't got no sister,<br/> I ain't got no sister<br/> To go and play with me.</p> <p>I ain't got no brother,<br/> I ain't got no brother,<br/> I ain't got no brother<br/> To drive the steers with me.</p> <p>I ain't got no sweetheart, <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page033" name="page033"></SPAN>(p. 033)</span><br/> I ain't got no sweetheart,<br/> I ain't got no sweetheart<br/> To sit and talk with me.</p> <p class="add2em">I'm a poor, lonesome cowboy,<br/> I'm a poor, lonesome cowboy,<br/> I'm a poor, lonesome cowboy<br/> And a long ways from home.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />