Nigger "'Lasses": Three-Block Bronco Buster

DESCRIPTION: "He ca-su-ied wid me, most ruinous, Till ma haid jest popped de ceilin'." "Oh, dere an't no horse what can't be rode, Dat's what de white foks say! En dere ain't a man what can't be throwed...." The Black man suffers while riding a restive horse
AUTHOR: N. Howard Thorp
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys)
KEYWORDS: Black(s) cowboy
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 106-108, "Nigger ''Lasses': Three-Block Bronco Buster" (1 text)
NOTES [38 words]: I must confess that this is one of the few Thorp poems that makes no real sense to me. But maybe that's because I despise the language so much. Ordinarily Thorp was more modern than this. I regret having to index the thing. - RBW
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