With a saddle, spurs and Stetson hat,
Fresh from the range in need of a bath,
Rosa saw him from the cat-house rail
And believe me boys she’s some kind-a gal!
But Will should-a known to watch his back,
Cause last time in he bested Mack
At five card stud and Rosa’s bed,
Figgered for sure he’d wind up dead.
Now a 45 makes quite a hole
When it hits the gut or so I’m told,
But Will wasn’t the kind to quietly go
He and his colt made a hell-of- a show.
Two blank holes where were Mack’s eyes
And through his head shown clear blue skies.
Poor Rosa cried as both men died
And you may think I’m full of lies,
But it takes some gold at the Texas Queen
And mourning don’t buy anything.
So Rosa found a new cowboy
To tip his hat and jump for joy!
Poetry by SS Matthews
Zen and Xel Sha 
ha. cool rhythm through most of this scott..a fun tale, well kinda…seriously cards and women will get you kilt on the frontier…smiles….
A cowboy’s life is the life for me, well in daydreams maybe!
Aww… this made me smile.
Always my aim for you to smile!
= )
I liked the rhythm here Scott…
Thanks Tim
An absolutely wonderful tribute to the sounds and cowboy poetic songs of Marty Robbins (have that LP somewhere too!)…really great. It reads like a movie. Thanks for joining in.
I grew up listening to good ol’ Marty. Sometimes his ballads still ring in my ears.
Cool story ~ I like the ballad of Rosa, she is a realist (And mourning don’t buy anything.)
Hot blooded but cool headed, my kind-a gal!
like the rhythm here..could be a hip hop song if cowboys knew how to do it.
These days there may be some pard!
Great little story depicting those rough times!
Thank you!
mourning don’t buy anything… ha. The lady of the west must be practical above all else! 🙂
Indeed she must!
oha…smiles…that is quite the story… and she came across the mourning process quite quickly..ha
ok…that was probably bad english..what i want to say is that she didn’t cry for them for a long time..smiles
Life goes on!
Love the character of this poem! I felt like I was watching a Western =) The new prompt is up if you are interested =)
I still love a good western!
I love how you added the Murder Ballad genre to the cowboy one.. think they have a lot in common… This could be sung by Nick Cave 🙂
Thanks Bjorn! The old west was a dangerous and wondrous place in time.
Created the greatest arielcts, you have.
Oh my, she is indeed quite a gal!
Passionate but practical! Yep, they had to be.
That was some ballad about a gal name Rosa..mourning’s just another day..move on is what she says..
and keep on moving ’til the sun goes down!
Yes has. Makes.me glad I didn’t work the range with them.
Yee haw! Stupid spell check.
And Yippy-ki-yi-yay!
me too, though all those nights under the stars doesn’t sound so bad.