I grew up with Country music
Loved its simple themes
It’s been my constant joy
For ever or so it seems.
Bobby Bare’s on the Bose
Singing a tear jerking song
And I’m sitting there listening
And quietly singing along.
Sunday morning session one
Of those times I like the most
Playing Country music
Belly full of buttered toast.
A working man’s music
From earthier days
Telling redneck tales
Telling redneck ways.
I’m a Yorkshire country boy,
A redneck farm worker’s son
Who was given the chance
To progress and move on.
No redneck work for me
No need to labour on the land
A chance give to me by
My dad’s work hardened hands.
The Sunday morning session
Helps roll back the years
And I think of mam and dad
Surreptitiously wiping tears.
Yorkshire red neck values,
From village childhood days
All come back to mind as
My Sunday Country music plays.
Like butternut squash
A warm golden yellow
Like expensive wine stains
A deep crimson red
Like a cold, ripe plum
A dark reddish purple
Like that one rare sunrise
Pumpkin orange blazes forth
Long gone are mint greens
Long gone is the summer
And now come earthier shades
Breaking free at last
Summer's last sigh
A breath of decay
Pulls them down
Spinning and whirling
Twirling and twisting
A graceful dance
And they rest upon the ground
What is a collage degree Guess what I don't have But for the best writer I'm the only nominee For that I must have
What is the purpose of life If you know the answer please tell Writing is just my way of life As for my happiness and my success it's like I cast a spell
My life will be greater than you make it out to be I will earthier get by just like you or become greater then you ever imagined I did it without a degree So that thought in your head can be unimaginable
I don't need any handouts This is me and that's all I need Yes I might be a standout But when I bleed it won't be full of greed
This is for my family Thank you for being unspportive I'm happy your my family Without you this poem I probably would of abhorred
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