Smokey Wilson
...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 never hear from him again
Started out in th...
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Categories:
waddie, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
All My Life a Waddie
...~ 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 hand to mouth so to speak
poor as a church mouse with not a crum...
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Categories:
waddie, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Loosin' Stella, a Cowboy's Lament
...Dreamin' with my eyes on these Montana skies
Blue as the plaid in my plum good shirt
I got the mitten by a beauty queen smitten
By a flannel mouthed tenderfoot from the Wyoming dirt
I’m just a ...
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Categories:
waddie, culture, emotions, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Waddie Peacock's Last New Year
...(The real Waddie Peacock, described only as “an old L.S. cowpuncher,” had the
distinction of being the first person buried in Logan, New Mexico’s first cemetery
in 1910.)
It seems a man rides...
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Categories:
waddie, angst, cowboy-western, history, sad,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Big Smalley
...It was back in '89 when I worked the Rockin' B,
That they hired a large cowpuncher that we called Big Smalley.
I reckon that ol' cowboy musta went 'bout six foot nine--
And to our suprise was the ...
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Categories:
waddie, cowboy-western, funny, philosophy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry