Lyric Cowboy Poems

That part of me belongs to someone else
You knew it all along as well

We have no pretense on the past
just how long our friendship will...

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Rome, Rome in the range
      Where Caesar and Brutus were slain

    Where whispers were heard
  ...

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He’s a man of few words when he wants to be
And his silence can rival the Sphinx,
But be spins a good yarn during therapy
With his...

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Momma
don't help me
grow up to love CowBoys,

The ones
who can buy you
or sell you at will,
or tell you
they don't care
whether healthy or ill,

The ones who know...

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Sad Elf

Empty bells, empty bells, 
they never ring, 
they can not sing, 
empty bells, empty bells...

I am small and took a fall, 
but after all,...

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Singing in the Dark

You are everything to me, 
why can’t you see, that you are…
X2

I wake up,
and breath you in, 
sometimes.
I want to cry
and then,...

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Oh in the desert
my horse walks on,
across the big empty,
through the miles long,

this great big desert,
red rock and stone,
a wide, endless nothing,
such a long way...

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I've got a tiger by the tail
Its plain to see came a Buck Owens wail
From the jukebox hidden near the bar
In a West Texas dance...

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Any Cowboy will tell you,
March 2015

Happiness, 
is having a Quarter Horse,

Misery, 
is having a Nag.

Happiness, 
Can be a horse shared, of course,

Only, 
if both share...

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He pulls his hat down tight
With a loco look in his eyes
'Like he's crazier than that bull
He's drawn tonight

He's got a suicide grip
On a one...

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I can’t look back; too many tears are there.
The woman that I used to know and love
is someone else now, and much less than fair
is...

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I'm aware that
They'll dare me to surrender when my burner's unkindled
And the barrel is empty
Since their whiskey is missing
 
But it's in our blood and...

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This poem came about by a discussion at work describing a memphis burger and a classic one. I told someone they flowed together and they...

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can you remember the time i let you in?
the time i showed you my heart?
the time i shared my soul with you?
the moment i poured...

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If I seem down
forgive me

Frowns I carry around
live in me

When I break
you see right through me

GIVE BACK THE SOUL I SOLD...

The hurt I’ve learned
brews in...

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