FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Mountain Homestead

I walked along the shore Of a lovely mountain lake, Looking for the perfect setting For a picture I would take.

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

A Retired Cowboy

I've got to get my work caught up Well at least I'll do my best, I'll likely get a start tomorrow But right now, I need some rest.

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Words Of Wisdom

I have traveled 'round this country North, South and East and West I've learned most of what there is to know And I've written down the best

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

A Cowboy Grieves

High on a hill on a cold winters night I set on my horse in the snow With tears in my eyes, I look to the skies But she lays in the valley below

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

This Great Land

Above the mighty river The snow capped mountains rise With majesty and grace Into the western skies

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

The Perfect Maiden

For weeks and months and even years I have searched around this land To find the perfect maiden And ask her for her hand

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

A Woman's Answer

I have read your many stories As you smile and smirk and jest I thought you were a friend of mine But you're as bad as all the rest

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

I'll Miss That Old Tree

I walked today in the forest To enjoy the sights and the sound When a tree I'd walked past for years Came suddenly crashing down

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

A Winter Morn

I hear them critters bawlin But it's an hour yet 'till dawn I snuggle in a little deeper And lay wishin they was gone

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

A Driver's Luck

While driving through the Texas plains I met a girl one-day, I took her in my truck, But I couldn't make her stay.

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Dust Bowl

I am sittin in my kitchen With a sad look on my face A look that is quite common In this god forsaken place

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

It's Time To Go

In a lonely mountain valley A weathered cabin stands For sixty years a happy home Well kept by loving hands

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

A Girl Like You

I have traveled nigh a million miles And maybe even more, From the tropics down in Mexico To the frozen Arctic shore.

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

By Light of Dawn

A reverent silence mutes the morning As I turn to meet the dawn My heart is aching badly For a friend of mine is gone

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Days End

I sit upon my pony and look Across the rolling hills, I listen to a lonely coyote And some distant whip-pore-wills

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Our Love For Her

A young mother sat in the church pew And held tight to her husbands hand As they bid farewell to their baby A loss they could not understand

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

My Neighbor

The cars out on the highway Still go rumbling by An airplane rattles windows As it roars across the sky

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

A Wantabe

I want to be a cowboy, You hear this every day, Not from little boys and girls, But from some who are turning gray

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

The Dream

Oh the hills of Colorado Where the mountain breezes blow So lovely in the winter time Covered deep by the drifting snow

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

To A Special Friend

You havelistened to my tales of woe And laughed at every joke Given comfort when I'm feeling low And offered money when I'm broke

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Our Precious Dreams

Don't take away my dreams Don't put me on the shelf Don't force me to withdraw To live within myself

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Where Did He Go

I ask, "What is a cowboy?" And, "Where did this cowboy go?" I ask, "Who is this cowboy?" But who is left to really know?

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Wild Freedom

I feel the freedom in your heart my friend And see defiance in your eye As you leave us earth bound creatures and soar grandly in the sky

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Christmas Love

Christmas time has come again As it does most every year The fondest wish a dad could have Would be to have you here

Poems Mostly Cowboy

FC 11 N-16

Dick Nichols

Fuelishness

It all started with a donkey Back when history had its start, He carried loads upon his back And sometimes pulled a cart.