نبذة مختصرة : banjos; guitars; voice ; Collected by Patrick A. Todd Sung by Mrs. Helen Fultz Mayfield, Arkansas "UTAH CARL" Accompanied by herself on Guitar and Mrs. Phydella Hogan, Fayetteville, Arkansas on banjo Jan 1960 Reel 329, Item 16 1. My friend you've asked the question Why I'm silent, sad and still Why my brow is always darkened Like a cloud upon a hill 2. Rein in your pony closer And I'll tell to you a tale Of Utah Carl my pardner And his last ride on the trail 3. Mid Mesquite and the cactus In the Western fairy land Where the cattle roamed by the thousands In many a bunch and brand 4. There's a grave without a headstone Without either a date or a name Where my pardner sleeps in silence It's the land from where I came 5. Long we rode the range together Had ridden side by side I loved him as a brother And I wept when Utah died 6. Together we rode the roundups Cut out and burned the brands When the dark and the stormy weather came We joined the night herd's dreary band 7. We were rounding up one morning And the work was nearly done On the right the cattle started On a wild and maddened run. 8. The bosses little daughter Was herding on that side Rushed into stop the cattle And there's where Utah died P. On the saddle of the pony Where the bosses daughter sat Utah Carl that morning Had placed a red blanket10. That the saddle might ride easy For Lenore his little friend But the blanket that he placed there Brought my pardner to his end 11. When Lenore rushed in with her pony To turn the cattle to the right The blanket slipped from under her And caught in her stirrup tight 12. When the cattle saw the blanket Almost trailing on the ground They were maddened in an instant And they charged it with a bound 13. When Lenore saw her danger She turned her pony's face And leaning from the saddle Tried the blanket to replace 14. While leaning from the saddle Fell in front of that wild tide "Lie still Lenore I'm coming" Is the words my pardner cried 15. About fifty yards behind her Utah came riding fast Little did he think that ...
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