1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 250: The proceedings we find were a ten dollar blind, / Ten dollars less to blow foam.at blow foam (v.) under blow, v.1
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 155: He astonished all them cowboys with them jawbreaking words.at jaw-breaking, adj.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 69: I’m a lonely bull-whacker / On the Red Cloud line, / I can lick any son of a gun / That will yoke an ox of mine.at bullwhacker, n.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 9: ’Tis a bummer, too, they call me now / But what cares I for praise?at bummer, n.3
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 9: My comrades they all loved me well, / The jolly saucy crew; / A few hard cases, I will admit, / Though they were brave and true.at hard case, n.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 209: But you have to show your copper checks / To get your grain and hay.at check, n.1
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 159: It was old jerked beef, croton coffee, and sour bread. / Pease River’s as salty as hell fire, the water I could never go.at Croton (cocktail), n.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 58: And I’m goin’ punchin’ Texas cattle. [Ibid.] 61: I’ll quit punching cows in the sweet by and by.at punch cows, v.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 150: Oh, Tom is a big six-footer and thinks he’s mighty fly, / But I can tell you is racket, – he’s a deadbeat on the sly.at deadbeat, n.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 69: It’s whack the cattle on, boys, / Root hog or die.at root, hog or die, v.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 265: His manners they are pleasant / Instead of flip and rude.at flip, adj.1
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 156: He thumped him in the shoulders and spurred him when he whirled, / To show them flunky punchers that he was the wolf of the world.at flunky, adj.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 177: Through rain, hail, and snow, frozen plumb to the gills.at gills, n.1
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 190: Never thinking we would monkey with his gol-darned wheel.at goldarned, adj.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 160: The fleas and graybacks worked on us, O boys, it was not slow.at grayback, n.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 223: The Mexicans use it in all that they cook. / Just dine with a Greaser and then you will shout, / ‘I’ve hell on inside as well as the out!’.at greaser, n.1
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 154: He looked so very foolish that we began to look around, / We thought he was a greenhorn that had just ’scaped from town.at greenhorn, n.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 154: And about old Paul Jones, a mean, fighting son of a gun, / Who was the grittiest cuss that ever pulled a gun.at gritty, adj.1
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 305: Drink that rot gut, drink that rot gut [...] It don’t make a damn wherever we land, / We hit her up for joy.at hit up, v.
1911 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 167: So he saddled up old Chaw one night and lit a shuck this way.at light a rag (v.) under light, v.1