Laredo Poems - Poems about Laredo

...st with spur or wing He’s been strutting with the egg-layers and pecking their chicken feed He’s scratching around in Laredo, I hear it’s the common belief Even crowing for the pullets, a double dealing chicken thief I strut into the ......Read More

...ack against the wall. Except for Bobbi-Jo in Beaumont, Hell, it weren’t worth Texas at all. I’ve seen Lubbock and Laredo, Seen Odessa/Midland, too. Met a sweet young thing in Brownsville, Just another déjà vu. Didn’t tell her I......Read More

...I woke up in a Spaghetti Western Not sure how this happened to me Standing on the dusty streets of Laredo With six desperado's down the street I gazed off to my left As a tumbleweed went tumbling by There was a do......Read More

...As I walked down the streets of Laredo I spied a Mexican hot potato But better by far A Cuban cigar With a spicy Comanche tomato......Read More

...queen from heaven above! Pops saw and knew there would be bad trouble soon For she belonged to one bad hombre named Laredo For her he'd fight anything and jump over the moon He was fast with a gun and one tough Texas tornado. Young c......Read More

..., a stallion maned and tailed, and had followed a gang of four outlaws for a month, from Abilene, all the way down to Laredo. One evening as the sun hit sand and rabbits stowed away, Jed Seddon, scouting for the gang, saw Mateo on his b......Read More

...Air spins quicker More lightning flicker A funnel forms 'neath thunder storms Touches down Destroys the town of Laredo Class 5 tornado......Read More

...ds, cool water, tin cups and eatin' from tin plates. They sing about bein' back in the saddle again and the streets of Laredo, And belt out songs about horses named Old Paint, Ol' Dan and Tornado. They yodel the cattle call and sing ab......Read More

...n, As he toiled out in the sun. Or I'd sense the wild Missouri, Watch it ripple, see it run. We'd walk streets of Laredo, A poor cowboy in the dirt, His last request while dying, With blood caked on his shirt. Special words and mu......Read More

... Limerick: Once a lolling lassie from Laredo Once a lolling lassie from Laredo Jumped on a bronco to enter a rodeo But the steed fell in love With the curve ......Read More

...My Laredo boots are red My Clairol lipstick is hot My Wrangler jeans are blue My Leather Jacket is not My tastes are......Read More

...t or not Another truck stop, burger and a order of fries Rather hauling cattle or packing freight A long haul from Laredo to San Pancho "Dead heading", from there to God knows where Flirting with a truck stop Cutie, a hot cup of coff......Read More

...Down in the town of Nuevo Laredo The riders of Don Carlos came: They kidnapped a captive to take to their leader, And sweet Armaline was her na......Read More

...ghts. I wanted to see the Alamo, but saw the dome instead. What was I really thinking, twas rocks inside my head. Laredo was next on the list, lowest point on the Texas map. Upon this map I’m looking at I see a two inch gap. If I......Read More

...la-gi = Cherokee language for the name Cherokee. Italics sung to the tune of “The Bard of Armagh”, AKA “The Streets of Laredo” Adapted from the original for Oklahoma Cowboy Poetry Week, third week in April 2006 ......Read More