As a child, John Avery Lomax loved the songs he heard the cowboys singing along the nearby Chisholm Trail. He began writing them down at an early age. As John grew older, he traveled the country collecting and recording cowboy songs, helping to preserve many favorites.

In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, a pirate swallows a treasure map, while two children lead the reader through the adventure which becomes a ride at the amusement park.

The inhabitants of Old MacDonald's farm are described, verse by verse.

An illustrated version of the cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse that the predicament when a cowpoke swallows an ant with a sting the size of Texas.

Illustrations depicting the courtship of two black bears in a woodland setting accompany the words to the traditional Christmas song.