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Legacy Of The Rodeo Man

Series: Library News | Story 44

With the rodeo right around the corner, Baxter Black defines the true character of the Rodeo Cowboy.

There's a hundred years of history and a hundred before that

All gathered in the thinkin' goin' on beneath his hat

And back behind his eyeballs and pumpin' through his veins

Is the ghost of every cowboy that ever held the reins

Every coil in his lasso's been thrown a million times

His quiet concentration's been distilled through ancient minds

It's evolution workin' when the silver scratches hide

And a ghostly cowboy chorus fills his head and says, "Let's ride."

The famous and the rowdy, the sav...

 

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