OK, there’d still be corrals, stampedes,
batwing-doored saloons, robbed banks,
six shooters, main street gunfights.
thanks Bill but
where's the bar room gals and honky tonk pianos?
On 06/03/2018 23:56, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Have no say
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> in whether they want
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> to appear in Westerns.
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> Directors, actors, stuntmen
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> - and women - do.
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> It’s up to them. But horses -
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> Think flooded river crossings,
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> hauling laden wagons,
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> full tilt range riding
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> Up and down mountains
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> of shifting stones. Horses,
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> called to plough on
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> in all weathers,
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> accepting with alacrity,
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> sounds of shootouts,
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> roped into collapsing
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> under cowboy weight,
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> falling from great heights
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> into raging rivers,
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> onto dusty prairies,
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> or snowy plains.
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> Whipped by stage drivers,
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> urged into burning saloons,
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> crashing through windows.
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> But without horses: pals,
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> confidantes, muscled movers,
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> where would your Western be?
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> OK, there’d still be corrals, stampedes,
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> batwing-doored saloons, robbed banks,
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> six shooters, main street gunfights.
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> But somewhere, tension must gallop.
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> Horses, salute them.
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> Hi Ho Silver!
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> bw
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