Saturday Night

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    Just simple cowboy poetry about living and loving

    Saturday Night

    Come Saturday morn I’ll be polishing my boots

    And looking for a clean shirt and jeans

    Cause Saturday night I’m heading for town

     For some carousing and a few other things.

     

    So its bath time for sure and a change of long johns

    In case I get extra lucky at O’Doul’s saloon

    If things work out just right I won’t spend the night

     a howlin at that old harvest moon.

     

    Come Saturday evenin I get out my best Stetson hat

    Brush my teeth with a finger dipped in moonshine

    Saddle up old Bill and head up the hill

    With visions of havin a good time

     

    It’s an hour’s ride into town so I sing me a tune

    About cowboys and cattle and such

      I also think about sweet Mary back in Montana

    Her warm smile and soft gentle touch

     

    But now I can see the lights of the town in the distance

    And I try to push memories of sweet Mary aside

    But try as I may I can’t seem to forget

    How I left her and the way that she cried

     

    The next thing I know I’m back at the ranch

    Packin up and sayin my goodbye’s  

    Yep, there’s a long trip ahead so I give Old Bill his head

    And think of Mary and those Montana skies

     

    ©Copyright Charlie Gragg, October 20, 2010     

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    gogant commented on Saturday Night

    11-13-2010

    We all, at one time, wish we could have been a cowboy.....riding hard, whisky bent and hell bound........A clever one you give us here with all the color and dust..............................................g
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    Hampton

    11/14/2010

    Thank you. We are all cowboys at heart.

    lunamarie commented on Saturday Night

    10-25-2010

    ... you know my middle name is mary, yes? ... haha ............ lm
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    Hampton

    10/26/2010

    Thank you. Watch for he and Old Bill coming down the road.

    Oblaidon commented on Saturday Night

    10-25-2010

    I like how this one tells a story. A 10 from California. :)
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    rsalassi commented on Saturday Night

    10-25-2010

    Good write, Hamp. I just see him rding alone toward Montana, thinking "We 'll always have Brokeback Mountain, Mary." Oh wait a minute, that wasn't Mary, was it?
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    icu2 commented on Saturday Night

    10-25-2010

    I liked this very much. This would make a good story, and you know how much I love a good story....almost as much as a good poem...This was a good poem. Lucky Mary...lol
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    Hampton

    10/26/2010

    Thank you and I miss your stories.

    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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