Down in Texas comic poem card, Texas, circa 1940

Subjects: Comics & Humor Horses
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1907 (Golden Age)

Back of Down in Texas comic poem card, Texas, circa 1940, Miss Elaine Steele, WI, USA, c. 1907 linen postcard — Back

About this postcard

A blue-ground comic "bunk" card titled "DOWN IN TEXAS," with a tall-tale poem in three columns around a red Texas star entwined with bluebonnets, a cowboy on a bucking yellow bronco, a desert scene with saguaro cacti, a red sun with a rider silhouetted in it, and a red mission-style building with palms. Exaggerated "Texas" humor cards of this kind were a staple of mid-century roadside souvenir publishing, poking fun at heat, gunplay, and boastful local pride. The card was copyrighted by the E. C. Kropp Co. of Milwaukee, a prolific lithographic postcard firm.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

back with the pictures we took of all of you and of Bottle. We didn't see them or a [illegible] but they came out mighty nice so we want to come to Cal. Monday if hardly all depends on Weather they wanted to fly here and go to Cal. with us we didn't hear yet. We was at the museum yesterday and saw East Indian [illegible] and all kinds of things

PublisherE.C. Kropp Co.

We're down here in old Texas, Where you never have the blues, Where the bandits steal the jitneys And the Marshals steal the booze; Where the buildings horn the sky-line, Where the populace is boost, Where they shoot men just for pastime, DOWN IN TEXAS Where the chickens never roost, Where the stickup men are wary And the bullets fall like hail; Where each pocket has a pistol And each pistol's good for jail; Where they always hang the jury, Where they never hang a man If you call a man a liar, you Get home the best you can; Where you get up in the morning In a world of snow and sleet And you come home in the evening Suffocating in the heat; Where the jitneys whiz about you And the street cars barely creep; Where the burglars pick your pockets While you "lay me down to sleep;" Where the bulldogs all have rabies, And the rabbits they have fleas; Where the big girls, like the wee ones, Wear their dresses to their knees; Where you whisk out in the morning Just to give your health a chance; Say "Howdy" to some fellow who Shoots big holes in your pants; Where wise owls are afraid to hoot And birds don't dare to sing, For it's hell down here in Texas, Where they all shoot on the wing. COPYRIGHT BY E. C. KROPP CO. T42 --- 12582 POST CARD COPYRIGHT BY E.C. KROPP CO. MILWAUKEE, WIS. MADE IN U.S.A.

PostmarkedEl Paso, TX, January 7, 1954, 20:30

Addressed to

Miss Elaine Steele

217 Walnut St, Oconomowoc, WI

Postcard record

Postmarked	January 7, 1954, 20:30, El Paso, TX
Publisher	E.C. Kropp Co.
Series	T42
Condition	Fair
Place addressed	Miss Elaine Steele, 217 Walnut St, Oconomowoc, WI
Place mentioned	Texas, TX
Publisher	E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, WI
Stamp	2c John Adams, red
Notes	Linen-textured stock; paper loss and a small chunk missing along the top edge, light corner wear; copyright and number T42 printed at lower left. Postmark: EL PASO TEX JAN 7 1954 8:30 PM. Divided back; blue-ink message written sideways along left edge; E.C. Kropp comic card; light edge wear.

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Down in Texas comic poem card, Texas, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/down-in-texas-comic-poem-card-texas-circa-1940. Accessed October 24, 2026.