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Charlie Rutledge

from Old​-​Time Songs by Martha Burns

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D. J. O'Malley was cowboying on the N-Bar-N Ranch in eastern Montana in 1891 when he submitted this ballad of death on the round-up to the Miles City Stock Growers' Journal. The song circulated widely in oral tradition, but never acquired the canonical status of “When the Work's All Done This Fall,” another of O'Malley's compositions. The tune that I use is my unconscious corruption of the tune in Kenneth Clark, The Cowboy Sings (1932) – time and the folk process at work.

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Another good cowpuncher has gone to meet his fate.
I hope he’ll find a resting place within the golden gate.
Another place is vacant on the ranch of the XIT.
’Twill be hard to find another was liked as well as he.

The first that died was Kid White, a man both tough and brave,
And Charlie Rutledge was the third to be carried to his grave.
Caused by a cow horse falling while running after stock.
’Twas on the spring round-up, a place where death men mock.

He went forward that morning on a circle through the hills.
He was gay and full of ease, and free from earthly ills.
But when he came to finish the work on which he went.
Nothing came back from him, for his time on earth was spent.

’Twas as he rode the round-up, a cow turned back from the herd.
Charlie shoved him in again, and his cattle horse he spurred.
Another turned at that moment and his horse the creature spied,
And turned and fell with him, and beneath, poor Charlie died.

His relatives in Texas, his face never more will see.
But I hope he’ll find a resting place beyond in eternity.
I hope he’ll meet his parents, will meet them face to face,
And that they’ll take him by the hand, in that shining throne of grace.

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from Old​-​Time Songs, released October 13, 2021

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Old-time American folk songs the old-time way.

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