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"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."

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Much later 

in the

day,

when the

cows

came home,

we knew

we were

Saved....

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Elmont was hungry 
He needed money 
Trying not to be bitter 
Hearing the bull sifting through the ticket litter 
Two bucks thrown away 
Nothing came...

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He sat emboldened in the saddle,
The cowpoke on the plains,
Herding his longhorns.

Sometimes folks decorate with steer horns;
A rancher must have a well made saddle
But, unlike...

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The night I bed in darkness,
The moon I kissed good night,
The stars I embraced formally,
The sky I waved a thousand hands;
The song I sang to...

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We bought a cow at the state fair 
and loaded her on the truck
to take her home, but halfway there
we had a stroke of good...

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There is, in the Los Angeles area, a well-known brand of milk, called Alta Dena.  Near also,
is the city named Alta Dena, and my...

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Can you recall seeing me?
On a country drive perhaps?
Winding my tendrils, so tenderly.

Very tall, like six feet high, I grow wild!
Every field and grassland is...

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On Sunday the Eighth of October 1871 shortly after nine o'clock at night,
The Great Chicago Fire began causing panicked folks to flee in fright!
'Twas alleged...

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He was  a crusty old cowboy, that was all he knew
His home, living in an old cow camp shack
It was a cold December, with...

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One day, cow fell from a tree--
It bruised her nose and skinned her knee.
You're wondering how this thing could be?
Someone might know, but don't ask...

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