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    Ain’t it the Truth?

    By James W. Whilt | Cowboy Poetry | 0 comment | 19 February, 2017 | 0

    I have seen them ride the ponies
    In the sage-brush and the bad land;
    I have seen them buck and beller
    And turn almost inside out,
    While the rider sat the saddle
    And watched each snaky motion,
    While the others yelled “Stay with him”
    As loud as they could shout.

    And often on the round-up
    I have watched the cayuse antics,
    When the devil got the upper-hand—
    And I know he crawled inside,
    And when you hit the saddle
    You had just one thought before you:
    To hook your spurs into the cinch
    And settle down and ride.

    But the wildest, meanest horses
    That ever have been ridden
    Or ever have been saddled,
    Either here or anywhere,
    As they rode and scratched them
    They never once pulled leather;
    They just quirted and hollered
    And never once turned hair.

    But this wildest riding
    Was not done in the open
    ‘Way out on the prairies,
    Or in bad lands far away,
    It was done right in the bunk-house
    When the cigarettes were lighted,
    And the Sibley stove was glowing
    And life was sweet and gay.

    Or when they hit the village
    And lined up at old Pete’s place,
    With their foot upon the bar-rail
    And a couple drinks inside,
    They would loosen up their chatter
    And climb upon those bronchos
    —
    Those wild and wooly cowboys;
    My God, how they would ride.

    ‘Twas then they’d ride and quirt them
    And rake them in the shoulders;
    They’d fan them with their big hat
    ‘Till you could hear them bawl.
    But when you needed riders
    And was out upon the circle,
    They were a bunch of bone-heads
    And could not ride at all.

    But while sitting in my saddle,
    Where I could see those riders
    A-riding down the trail of life,
    ‘Twas just as plain as day
    That the ones who rode the bad ones
    And drew the biggest wages
    Were the ones who seemed the meekest
    And had the least to say.

     

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