For Áine & JAB: this is from the John A. & Alan Lomax book I was talking about, Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads re-released in 1986 by Macmillan Publishing. ISBN # 0-02-061260-5

WAY OUT WEST

'Twas good to live when all the range,
Without no fence and fuss,
Belonged in partnership with God,
The Government, and us.

With sky-line bounds from east to west,
With room to go and come,
I liked my fellow man best
When he was scattered some.

When my old soul hunts range and rest
Beyond the last divide,
Just plant me on some strip of West
That's sunny, lone and wide.

Let cattle rub my headstone round,
And coyotes wail their kin,
Let hosses come and paw the mound
But don't you fence it in.

From A Lone Star Cowboy, by Charles A. Siringo.