Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

<p class="tit-song">JIM FARROW <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page237" name="page237"></SPAN>(p. 237)</span></p> <p>It's Jim Farrow and John Farrow and little Simon, too,<br/> Have plenty of cattle where I have but few.<br/> Marking and branding both night and day,&mdash;<br/> It's "Keep still, boys, my boys, and you'll all get your pay."<br/> It's up to the courthouse, the first thing they know,<br/> Before the Grand Jury they'll have to go.<br/> They'll ask you about ear-marks, they'll ask you about brand,<br/> But tell them you were absent when the work was on hand.<br/> Jim Farrow brands J.F. on the side;<br/> The next comes Johnnie who takes the whole hide;<br/> Little Simon, too has H. on the loin;&mdash;<br/> All stand for Farrow but it's not good for Sime.<br/> You ask for the mark, I don't think it's fair,<br/> You'll find the cow's head but the ear isn't there<br/> It's a crop and a split and a sort of a twine,&mdash;<br/> All stand for F. but it's not good for Sime.</p> <p>"Get up, my boys," Jim Farrow will say,<br/> "And out to horse hunting before it is day."<br/> So we get up and are out on the way<br/> But it's damn few horses we find before day.<br/> "Now saddle your horses and out on the peaks<br/> To <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page238" name="page238"></SPAN>(p. 238)</span> see if the heifers are out on the creeks."<br/> We'll round 'em to-day and we'll round 'em to-morrow,<br/> And this ends my song concerning the Farrows.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />