Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

<p class="tit-song">THE KANSAS LINE <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page022" name="page022"></SPAN>(p. 022)</span></p> <p>Come all you jolly cowmen, don't you want to go<br/> Way up on the Kansas line?<br/> Where you whoop up the cattle from morning till night<br/> All out in the midnight rain.</p> <p class="add1em">The cowboy's life is a dreadful life,<br/> He's driven through heat and cold;<br/> I'm almost froze with the water on my clothes,<br/> A-ridin' through heat and cold.</p> <p>I've been where the lightnin', the lightnin' tangled in my eyes,<br/> The cattle I could scarcely hold;<br/> Think I heard my boss man say:<br/> "I want all brave-hearted men who ain't afraid to die<br/> To whoop up the cattle from morning till night,<br/> Way up on the Kansas line."</p> <p>Speaking of your farms and your shanty charms,<br/> Speaking of your silver and gold,&mdash;<br/> Take a cowman's advice, go and marry you a true and lovely little wife,<br/> Never to roam, always stay at home;<br/> That's a cowman's, a cowman's advice, <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page023" name="page023"></SPAN>(p. 023)</span><br/> Way up on the Kansas line.</p> <p>Think I heard the noisy cook say,<br/> "Wake up, boys, it's near the break of day,"&mdash;<br/> Way up on the Kansas line,<br/> And slowly we will rise with the sleepy feeling eyes,<br/> Way up on the Kansas line.</p> <p class="add1em">The cowboy's life is a dreary, dreary life,<br/> All out in the midnight rain;<br/> I'm almost froze with the water on my clothes,<br/> Way up on the Kansas line.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />