In a letter to Alan Lomax (Lomax and Lomax, 1934, "American Ballads & Folksongs," p. 389), Owen Wister wrote: "Here is the second verse of the 'Little Doughies';

"In the mornING we throw off the bedground,
Aiming to graze THEM an hour or two,
When they are full you think you can drive them
On to the trail, BUT be damned if you do.
Singing Hoop-li-O; (ô)
Get along my little doughies,
FOR Wyoming will be your new hOme. (ô)
And it's driving and damning and cursing those doughies
To our misforTUNE but none of their own.

"It took me about half an hour to make sure of the capricious melody. We sat under a live oak in McCulloch County, Texas, some twenty miles frm Brady City, in March, 1893. I made the boy sing it until I had taken the notes down with the words under them. He sang in 6/8 time, andante, dwelling according to whim on certain unexpected syllables. Those I have either underlined (for a short hold) or marked with a circumflex indicating a note often prolonged through several measures" (I have used caps for short hold and cap O for ô, circumflex).

Mr. Wister adds:
"Just from habit I write 'doughies.'"
Wister's tune is given in the second example as printed on pp. 386-387 of Lomax and Lomax, 1934, "American Ballads & Folk Songs."