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Toe's Remains....repost for gunslinger
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Toe's Remains....repost for gunslinger |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA 
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I walked around in Tombstone Cemetery late last year Taking a gawk at all the stones of people buried there. There were Joneses, Adamses, Johnsons, too, far as the eye could see And then I spied one tombstone with the single letter "T". "That's odd", I thought. Perhaps the rest of that name had been lost Or, maybe, it is not a "T" but symbol of the cross. That must be it! I smiled, but just before I turned to go My eyes fell on another tombstone with the letter "O". The next tombstone beside it had the single letter "E", And, by this time, I was obsessed with curiosity! Then "R", then "A", then "G" appeared. Now mystified was I. I grabbed the arm of Gravedigger Bill as he was passing by. "Hey, Bill", I said. "I see six graves - one letter on the stones. Don't seem a right, respectful way to treat those poor folks' bones." "No that ain't it", he said."Those bones belong to one man in the same, Some foolish drifter passing through, uh, Toerag was his name." "That silly fool rode into town - this really is absurd- And challenged our dear Balladeer into a war of words. He'd heard back home, across the sea, that Balladeer was best And so he journeyed over here to put him to the test." "They met at noon on Main Street with their pens and paper drawn, For three long hours they fired their quips until the duel was done. My sons and I dug all night long. I mean, we worked like slaves. Balladeer cut him up so bad we had to use six graves!!" |
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sandgrain Member Elite
since 1999-09-21
Posts 3662Sycamore, IL, USA |
What a fight that must've been, but I'd have known you'd win. Had to copy this great western for my husband to read. Really neat!! |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
I sure do hope he got a "Six Toe" salute... In reverance to his "Rag"......  |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
I missed this one the first time! Hillarious! You guys are somethin' else!  Denise |
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John Yaws Senior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 860Texas |
there was a time I thought that I Numbered with the best To tote a quill, or sling a gun Out here in the west... I greatly fear, I soon saw clear a faster pen than I Had blown in with the tumbleweeds To challenge is to die. So ere I go, I'll drink to Toe Then lift a glass of cheer, To the fastest quill of all The dauntless Balladeer. [This message has been edited by Gunslinger (edited 12-17-1999).] |
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Mayme David New Member
since 1999-11-21
Posts 8Carrollton, TX, USA |
LOL Balladeer and Gunslinger. Such fun to read your poems of wit. Now that we have Toerag buried is this all we'll hear? Even though Gunslinger doesn't want to fight, on the sideline I really loved his cheer. Light hath power over darkness. |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
LOL, poor Toe, just fell apart he couldn't take it... I missed this one too I believe, glad you reposted it! |
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poetFemmeFatale Member Elite
since 1999-07-25
Posts 2646Arkansas |
Yeah, that 'ol Balladeer is one fast tumbleweed - he just blows and blows and blows.....LOL Oh....uh...I think I read that wrong....never mind!  (really liked this, glad I didn't miss it !) Back to the top it goesssss!!!!- - - If I can just touch you once, then I feel I have accomplished what I am called to do...- - pFF |
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