I had to ride the prairie, | 1 |
It was my job for the day | 2 |
and could be precariously scary. | 3 |
Beware sidewinders, mad men selling hooch, | 4 |
swinging those rattlers through dusty air. | 5 |
They dared me to take a sip. | 6 |
Must admit I was tempted, | 7 |
as heat dried out my cracked parched lips. | 8 |
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Had saddle bag full of beans | 9 |
which I exchanged for beer from a medicine man. | 10 |
As I galloped away a bean stalk, | 11 |
ten times taller that a totem pole swayed behind. | 12 |
A giant red injun fired his bow and gun | 13 |
and a bullet arrowed clean through a cactus plant | 14 |
Grazing my chaps | 15 |
denting my free entry to the prairies badge. | 16 |
Percy, my pinto, had had enough. | 17 |
Shot off like a cayote on a sortie. | 18 |
A squaw shouted as we passed | 19 |
“Hotch potch, hocus pocus. | 20 |
You pulled the knickers off Pocahontas. | 21 |
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Thank God I’m on saloon duty tomorrow | 22 |
At High Noon. | 23 |
I won’t forget you oh my darlin’s | 24 |
While I slide whiskey rye the length of the bar, | 25 |
starting and stopping fights, | 26 |
chucking drunken god fearing folk out into the night | 27 |
In my ten gallon hat I’ll look quite a sight. | 28 |
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We do get a day or two off and on mine | 29 |
I’ll do the Hokey Cokey with Annie Oakley. | 30 |
Make playing card pyramids with The Cisco Kid. | 31 |
Drink pints of bitter with with Tex Ritter | 32 |
And having tea at eleven | 33 |
With The Magnificent Seven. | 34 |
Sometimes being a cowboy is simply heaven | 35 |