Show THE Sil SHEEP EEl HERDERS HERDER'S BATTLE We Ye call him Loco Johnson but we say It ml mighty low Since he broke brok the tho cowman's deadline over 01 here In Idaho And now he takes his wagon Into an any country countr strange For tIme the 45 lie he carries won the freedom of or the range c. S Slie Ho lie was called upon was Johnson lJ by a masked and well veli heeled bunch And was told hed he'd crossed the deadline and had hat better take their hunch Hed He'd bu lilt called upon next morn mornin In If he lie didn't pull his freight freight- And then lien they shot his coolie and advised advIsed ad- ad him not nol to wait walt Well old Johnt Johnsons Johnson's ons on's eyes was blazin when he lie looked at his dead pup And nd them cowboys cowboys' never neer figured on the thc row they they'd started up Tho The herder spent tho lie lonG Ions night stones on Sugar Butte Till hed he'd built himself a n breastwork where a man could rest and shoot Them cowboys came at ILL sunup and they thought old fled nell And tie the rifles started and the theS S sheep was as fallin dead deail But nut from Crom that there thore fort of L Locos Loco's cos co's come a loud laud cracks And every time Limo It spoke once dropped a puncher punchier in his tracks They tried to char charge chargo o tho the fortress but they left four Cour cowboy dead det On the tho lie slopes of oC that there hillside with old Loco overhead And nd that gun kept Its Ita up like It never lost its Ita breath And its Ill line lino of or conversation was upon the theme of or death de Well c II they gathered up their remnants and was ian glad Klad to get Ket aWn away And then lien he SAW nw hed he'd won It It old Johnson Johnson John John- son knelt to pray Anti And he lie marched off ore with his woollies trail for tor other bands For 1101 hed he'd broke broko tho deadline twIxt the sheep Ep and cattle lands Denver Den Republican p |