Best Roughneck Poems

You marketing types love us.
Blue all over, fear of nothing a man can throw,
Quick to bow down when the boss come by...
not the one paying...

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Oklahoma cowboy, tough coal miner’s son
Born in Henryetta, south of Tulsa some
Raised by daddy’s momma, taught him wrong from right
Daddy taught him ropin’, taught him...

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My daddy was a roughneck and he worked the oil patch.
He ate his eggs and biscuits that my mommy made from scratch.
Pies and cakes and...

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‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the bay
Not a soldier was stirring in the hall or the way.
The clothes were all hung in...

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I saw an old man with a hard hat on
Walkin' down the road as the sky turned dawn.
I said, "Howdy Bub, where you headed to?"
He...

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The American Way

In every neighborhood
There are problems that arise.
Some never get resolved
No one that fact denies.

However:  the other day
A big story was in our...

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His old hands were calloused from all the many years of work and toil.
   His life seemed to be his work and the...

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If I must die, let it be before the break of dawn
When peace and stillness sway in people, homes, and places
When earsplitting music in alcohol...

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I remember the first day
I tell you that i love you,
When i tell you that i will
Always be on your side,
Actually i wasn't lying to...

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Roughneck
obnoxious when inebriated
brother, precious brother
blessed by God
if only...
ever the first born....

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Life in Three Sands is very simple. 
There are those here for the oil 
And those that stay for the booze, games, and women. 

But...

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I worked on drilling rigs for the better part of thirty years.
   I sweated buckets of sweat while my wife cried barrels of...

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Feedback - flight or fight – it’s due to enzymes.
God put it in our brain, safeguard for crimes;
fear is normal, a good thing many times.

Facts...

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Hippy, could I say? Or rogue, rascal or roughneck?
Who, his and lives of others, does knowingly wreck; 
These are 'born with a silver spoon in...

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