Laredo Poems - Poems about Laredo

...The streets of Laredo have no green fields, nor has it fruit trees, nor rotting yields. France has no cowboys that anyone sees, and cowboys are never called deportees.......

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...Listening to folk records in my room all day, as a kid, to another world I'd withdraw to the streets of Laredo, as cold as the clay. Later, in music I heard, in pictures I saw, the Irish roots ......

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...We three toms of Laredo are Running from a sheriff's star Westward leading, still proceeding Soon hiding in Kitty's fancy Cat House Bar......

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...A strong wind blows across the Texas sand, As the sun is sinking low in the sky. Three men ride into the town of Laredo, In the distance you hear a coyote's cry. Ponies hitched outside a Cantin......

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...The rig rolled through Laredo On the road to San Antone, Its eighteen wheels of commerce Headed north from parts unknown. The shipping costs all paid to Their coyote chaperones. The pla......

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...Pink and My Buster Browns My egg hatched north of the border, P......

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...It was dusty, dry and endless Stretched beneath an empty sky From horizon to horizon Where the turkey buzzards fly, Like a landscape meant to warn you Just how far a man can fall. Except for ......

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...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 tumbl......

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...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......

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...The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At The Saloon That wash-bin washed away tons of trail-dirt Many a pint of blood too said the old man He was lean and mean in his cowboy shirt Weather-beaten fac......

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...Gift from God they called him, tall, lean and proud, the big iron hanging on his belt, had opened many a shroud. He rode an Apaloosa, a stallion maned and tailed, and had followed a gang of four o......

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...At sea there's squalls as pressure falls It's not surprising as warm air's rising From the cloud there's thunder, loud Lightning flashes More thunder crashes Hail stone falls Large icy b......

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...When cowboys sprawl 'round the camp fire after the days work is done, They strum guitars and tootle harmonicas and sing to have fun. Real cowboys don't sing Honky-Tonk or She Done Me Wrong stuff. ......

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...My Pa warn't much for music, Not like ya hear today. Them tune he learnt and taught me, Were from a bygone day. But Saturday nights were special; At least they were to me. Cause that was when ......

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...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 of her alcove And sped away on a honeymoon......

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