Old Cowboy Poems

Death Of The Old Cowboy On The Lonesome Range

Ravenous wolf pack, ripping and tearing
red-stain bloody meat from his dead horse flank
much better the dead horse...

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There’s many a tale that spreads across the night
when the sun o’er the plains yields to campfire light. 
Tales about cowboys, who once roamed the...

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From the old rockin’ chair
came the sound of his snores
that rattled the windows
and vibrated the doors

She looked o’er her glasses
but kept counting her stitch
as she...

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I always hear the sound of guitars strumming
harmonica music and cowboys humming
when I feel a warm night breeze upon my face

Whenever I look at a...

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Henry started a punchin’ 
at the ripe old age of 15
There just ain’t no way of knowin’
all of the things he’s done and seen

All those...

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I have a dream I could quit drifting around
and I could take up a wife and settle down
Together we’d buy us a small piece of...

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It seems that the truth is never quite square
it’s just a bit catywampus you see
All about the way that the cowboys lived
back in them old...

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Smokey hailed from someplace back in Missouri
was a slave until the ripe old age of ten
Left his master's home headed to Montana
and swore they would...

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The sun hangs gilded
I savor the warmth
as autumn trees glow like fire
flickering through hoar frost

mountains loom proud
into cloudless blue
like white-headed old men
watching over the world

the...

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‘Twas way back in them days 
when the ranch owner’s ways
was just about the only law there was around

Rancher’s money was king
and gun violence reigned
till...

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~ All My Life a Waddie…
I have lived the life of a country bumpkin
matter of fact I came into this world where
Every day was lived...

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I was out riding the fences one day
and spied these here suits and their fancy car
They said they was from some oil company
and started cutting...

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He was a fancy farm rooster always
prunin’ and preenin' his feathers for show 
But man could that rooster wake up the dead
when he puffed his...

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They said the cowboy way of living
has withered away and is long gone
Least that's what I seen in the movies
and heard in all them old...

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He'd wake up sorta rough around the edges
then he’d pull in his teeth from out of the glass
Yawn then rub his eyes with the back...

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