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John Yaws Senior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 860Texas 
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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. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Ride on cowboy. A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do! I loved it!! Great work. ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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Cerenity Member Elite
since 2000-02-16
Posts 2637Escondido-California |
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. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
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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