Larry Bradfield Poet Cowboy Poetry

Lonesome's Just a Word

Lonesome's Just A Word


I'd heard of lonesome whippoorwills
An' trains that whine so low
An' folks so lonesome they could cry -
But then I watched you go

Seems they don't know what lonesome is -
The ones who wrote that song -
It don't begin to tell you that
Lonesome can last so long

I've still got cows that need to eat
And fence I need to tend
There's young hosses I need to break -
A heart that needs to mend

I can do all the cowboy work -
The heart I just don't know
Thought I could skip this lonesome thing
But then I watched you go

I'd like to hear a train whine low
Or whippoorwills that fly
Both would be welcome sounds to me -
I'm so lonesome I could cry

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Charlie Smith April 11, 2016 at 9:01 PM Great write Hank, I mean Larry...got a bit confused there for a minute. Loved it. thanks, Charlie Larry Bradfield April 11, 2016 at 9:11 PM Thanks, Charlie..Hank does get half the credit. I was a freshman in high school when he released that one! It was another 40 years before I actually heard a whippoorwill....