Wrestler Bill

When you're 18 and young and you are looking for something to do...
Then wrestling with a bear might appeal to you.

The challenge was given and accepted by three...
But wrestling with a bear doesn't appeal to me.

Each year the Heart of Texas Fair and Rodeo provides many a thrill...
But there is a special memory for one named Bill.

Some ride bulls and others a bucking horse...
But still others pursue a different course.

When the challenge was given he said o.k....
And then Bill found out that wrestling a bear is not child's play.

Very few people have ever wrestled a bear...
But in 1970 at the Heart of Texas Fair and Rodeo you would 
have seen Bill if you were there.

Bill now sings in the choir and is a great Christian too...
And he loves to share memories about the crazy things he used to do.

Wrestler Bill has put bear wrestling on hold...
But he fondly remember be a teenager and trying to act bold.

                                      TK<><
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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