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John Yaws
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since 1999-10-09
Posts 860
Texas

0 posted 2001-08-18 07:57 PM



Rodeo

"If you love me, you will let me go, I just have to rodeo",
Then I carried my old bag out to my truck.
"You know that I've just got to try, there's no need for you to cry-
I wish you'd simply smile and wish me luck".

I drove eighty thousand miles last year, riding bulls and doggin' steers-
I just can't afford to pay no "turn-out" fines.
Workin' hard and ridin' hurt,  us cowboys do it in the dirt!
In my sleep I still can see those yellow lines.

I guess that I could get a job, but rodeo makes my heart throb-
It's all ever really longed to do.
I'll ride as long as  I have breath, and when I close my eyes in death,
Then you can say, "This time he's really through".

So rodeo you've staked your claim, my life can never be the same-
A cowboy is the only thing that I can ever be.
You ask me what I have to show, for twenty years of rodeo.
I never drew a breath that wasn't free.

© Copyright 2001 John R. Yaws - All Rights Reserved
Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113
Canada eh.
1 posted 2001-08-18 09:33 PM


Ride on cowboy. A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do! I loved it!! Great work.

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain~

Cerenity
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since 2000-02-16
Posts 2637
Escondido-California
2 posted 2001-08-19 11:34 PM


Hi Gunslinger,

This was great I really loved it and the last stanza was a perfect ending.

Love, Cerenity

"God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist.
We have to be reminded that He exist!"

(Writer Unknown)



Nan
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since 1999-05-20
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Cape Cod Massachusetts USA
3 posted 2001-08-20 09:02 AM


I love the way you try to balance a life as a cowboy and life with a loved one - One or the other always suffers, doesn't it?

You're pretty durned good, Gunslinger..

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