Don Edwards - Utah Carroll lyrics

In that far-off western country where friends are few and dear Where cattle roam in thousands and the skies are always clear We were rounding up one morning when the work was almost done When the cattle all stampeded in a wild and maddened run The boss's little daughter was holding on one side She tried to check the cattle, was a wild and dangerous ride Beneath the la**'s saddle early on that fatal morn I'd placed a scarlet blanket, a mistake I'll always mourn When the cattle saw that blanket it piqued their maddened brain They bore down on the la**ie and d**h rode by again The boss's little daughter rode the best horse all around But he stumbled in a dog hole and threw her to the ground The cattle thundered toward her and she surely would have died But someone spurred his cow horse like lightning to her side He leaned down from his pony and caught her from the ground But the cinches broke beneath him and once more hurled them down From the dust sprang Utah Carroll, a blanket waving gay He led off at an angle and the cattle came his way His task was then accomplished and the child safe on the side He stopped to face the cattle in their wild and maddened tide His pistol flashed like lightning and sounded loud and clear He failed to stop the cattle but he dropped the leading steer A thousand hooves a-pounding, a thousand slashing horns Snuffed out the life of Utah, the bravest hero born And on his funeral morning, I heard the preacher say "I hope we'll all meet Utah at the round-up far away" Then we wrapped him in a blanket sent by his little friend It was the same red blanket that brought him to his end In that far-off western country, where friends are few and near There's a humble little headstone 'neath the sky that's always clear Now the rancher's little daughter often goes to pray For the man who died so freely to save her life that day