Sorry for going seriously off topic here but does anyone have a source or leads for cowboy poetry on the internet, on audio tape, CD, video or book?
Happy Signing.....Marty
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Marty Happy
Signmaker Since 1974
Happy Ad Sign & Design
Regina SK, Canada S4N 5K4
306.789.9567
e-mail: happyad@sk.sympatico.ca
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[This message has been edited by Marty Happy (edited August 14, 2001).]
They came from near they came from far
Apon their cowboy stallions,
To see this famous Marty guy
Use paint by gallons and gallons!
heh heh heh... ok, not cowboy enough? Ah well
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From Katie Wright, 16 year old professional signie wannabe from Aus.
"Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint on it that you can"
Well , if you want
to ease your mind
you just go on
take it to the river
when you're down'
Well, that's alright
you just bring it down to jelly roll
We're gonna run
& jump and shout
We're gonna slide
way back in the country
There's a place
Where they treat you right
You just bring it down to jelly roll
The girls
way down south
they got their way
honey drippin from their mouth
if you ever get some luck
you better bring it down to jelly roll........
How'd you like ThEM lyrics??? eh?
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surf or MoJo
on mirc
Cheryl J Nordby
Signs by Cheryl
Seattle WA.....!
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It's only fun if you can get into trouble!!!
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Marty Happy
Signmaker Since 1974
Happy Ad Sign & Design
Regina SK, Canada S4N 5K4
306.789.9567 Get
e-mail: happyad@sk.sympatico.ca
website: www.happyad.ca
Reincarnation, by Wallace McRae
What is reincarnation? A cowboy asked his friend.
It starts, his old pal told him, when your life comes to an end.
They wash your neck and comb your hair and clean your fingernails,
And put you in a padded box away from life’s travails.
The box and you goes in a hole that’s been dug in the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when you’re planted neath that mound.
Them clods melt down, just like the box, and you who is inside.
And that’s when you begin your transformation ride.
And in a while the grass will grow upon your rendered mound,
Until some day, upon that spot, a lonely flower is found.
And then a horse may wander by and graze upon that flower
That once was you, and now has become your vegetated bower.
Now, the flower that the horse done eat, along with his other feed,
Makes bone and fat and muscle essential to the steed.
But there’s a part that he can’t use and so it passes through.
And there it lies upon the ground, this thing that once was you.
And if perchance, I should pass by and see this on the ground,
I’ll stop awhile and ponder at this object that I’ve found.
I’ll think about Reincarnation and life and death and such,
And come away concludin’, why, you ain’t changed all that much.
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Want more links?
http://www.isis-intl.com/paul/
http://www.cowboypoetry.com/
Thar, that'll keep ya busy a spell!
A
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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
"Wherever you go...there you are!"
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'on chat
Benicia, CA
707-550-4553
heyu@splashsigns.com
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PEACE SIGNS
Big on Murals and Tight on Camera Ready!
"With every breath, we have a choice." --Linda Silver Eagle
Georgia, USA
There was a young cowboy who lived on the range.
His horse and his saddle were his only companions.
....
Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose...
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Santo Brocato
Promotion Graphics & Letters
Youngsville LA.
[This message has been edited by Rick Sacks (edited August 15, 2001).]
Baxter Black is THE cowboy poet. He not only has the gift to string thoughts into rhyming narratives, but his delivery is second to none. This guy lives what he writes.
One line he said on some PBS show once has stuck in my head for a long time. He was reciting a poem about basically having reached the end of his rope. His punchline, or reason for being able to say the end of his rope was the fact he had no more keys. I thought to myself... damn, he's right! When you have no keys, you've got nothing to drive, go home to, work in, etc.
Wise man that Baxter. You'll do no better than him.
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Robb Lowe
Hub City Graphics
Spartanburg, SC
He was so thin I swear you could have used him for a whip.....
He had to drink a beer to keep his britches on his hips.....
I knew I had to ask him about the mysteries of life.....
He spit between his boots and he replied....
"It's faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money."
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& Makin' Tracks Sound Studio
Kalispell, Montana
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800 735-8026
We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
:^)
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Girls carve too!
Behind every good Woman, there's a man.............waiting.
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Jimmy Chatham
Chatham Signs
164 Poplar Rd.
Commerce, Ga 30529
706-335-2348
Fax 706-335-3378
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Pierre, did you write that???
Baxter Black, of course!!!! Several others that came to my attention were Waddie Mitchell, Michael Martin Murphy and Riders in the Sky. Tom T. Hall was a master of spoken word songs but I had no idea he did cowboy poetry.
Keep on keepin on..... Marty
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Marty Happy
Signmaker Since 1974
Happy Ad Sign & Design
Regina SK, Canada S4N 5K4
306.789.9567 Get
e-mail: happyad@sk.sympatico.ca
website: www.happyad.ca
As far as the cowboy poetry..I'll try and remember some of the ones I heard in Ca. when I was involved with horses and rodeos.
Dave Ginley
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Ace of Signs
Selinsgrove, Pa.
www.aceofsigns.com
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St.Marie Graphics
& Makin' Tracks Sound Studio
Kalispell, Montana
stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com
800 735-8026
We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
"Wherever you go...there you are!"
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'on chat
Benicia, CA
707-550-4553
heyu@splashsigns.com
