Songs:Shoeboy's Son (77077)
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George McJunkin was Shoeboy’s son Born to slavery in ‘51 Down the arroyo where the flash flood ran He found some bones and the Folsom Man. Apprentice to his blacksmith daddy Saddled with a chocolate hide George McJunkin was a rebel Who taught himself to read and ride. When the Yankee soldiers freed him He left and never said a goodbye Hoofin’ it hard across Texas He caught a stray mule to ride. As a cowboy George knew no equal Ridin’ up the long cattle drive Ropin’ his way into legend And readin’ at night ‘neath the sky. George settled down in a valley When the echoes of slavery had gone. Working as a white man’s foreman On the high desert dry Cimarron. George saved the life of a soldier Who granted a gift in return. The brass telescope hung proudly With his rope and his books and his gun. He studied the stars in the heavens And wondered where had the dinosaurs gone, Learned about flowers and fossils And the light in the mockingbird’s song. George made a gift of his learning And passed every bit of it down. He played the guitar and the fiddle And was loved as a friend in the town. George never knew what he found there On the Crowfoot arroyo that day In the sand, the point of a hunter Whom time had long hidden away. Horse and telescope, books and gun, George McJunkin was Shoeboy’s son. Here is a song worth singin’ Here is a tale to be told About a true American cowboy A hero of pure black and gold. In 1922 he lay dying Among friends in the Folsom hotel They read from his books ‘til their parting He took to his freedom so well. George McJunkin was Shoeboy’s son.
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 | Acoustic Guitar 8,479 items |
 | Fiddle 1,446 items |
 | Solo vocalist 10,205 items |
 | Acoustic 9,485 items |
 | Band 6,362 items |
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Categories: Folk | Acoustic guitar | Fiddle | Solo vocalist | Acoustic | Band
