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Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
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0 posted 2003-05-23 01:50 AM



The gentle breezes blowing
Stir mesquite and cottonwood-
As I'm resting in my saddle in the shade.
A puncher's life is all I've known,
I must confess it's good-
The best decision that I ever made.

Out in California,
Among the rocky peaks
I did daywork out on the Muleshoe L.
Along with Red Ken Bowen-
My luck has come in streaks,
And in those days it wasn't going well.

From there to Arizona,
I found the Bar T Bar-
A hundred thousand acres of the best.
I lived there in the bunkhouse,
And beneath the western stars,
Ten bucks a day, and found, you know the rest.

But my cowboy days are over-
I ride the range no more.
A pickup is the way I get around.
But memories do haunt me,
How they make my old heart sore,
For a livelihood,
A long, long way from town.

I think about the mountains,
And the Painted Desert days,
Of wrecks, and binds, and times I have been throwed-
And about the old time cowhands-
The cane we used to raise,
And them old boys you can't see from the road.

© Copyright 2003 John R. Yaws - All Rights Reserved
QjQ
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since 2003-04-18
Posts 3756
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1 posted 2003-05-23 01:59 AM


a very nice rememberence of yesterday,
nicely written and a nice read

QjQ

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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2 posted 2003-05-23 02:46 AM


awesome rhyming scheme here John! I'm very impressed!
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