Pardners

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Pardners</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <div> <I>(The Cowpuncher to His Pony)</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>You bad-eyed, tough-mouthed son-of-a-gun,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Ye're a hard little beast to break,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But ye're good fer the fiercest kind of run</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' ye're quick as a rattlesnake.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You jolted me good when first we met,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In the dust of the bare corral,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' neither one of us will ferget</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The fight that we fit, old pal.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>But now--well, say, old hoss, if John</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>D. Rockefeller shud come</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>With all of the riches his paws are on</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' want to buy you, you bum,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'd laugh in his face an' pat yer neck,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' say to him loud an' strong,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"I wouldn't sell you this durned old wreck</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Fer all of yer cash--so long!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Fer we have slept on the barren plains,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' cuddled against the cold,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>We've been through tempests of drivin' rains</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When the heaviest thunder rolled;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>We've raced with fire on the "lone prairee,"</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' run from the mad stampede;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' there ain't no money can buy from me</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>A pard of yer style an' breed.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>So I reckon we'll stick together, pard,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Till one of us cashes in.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Ye're wiry an' tough an' mighty hard,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' homlier, too, than sin;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But yer head's all there an' yer heart's all right,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' you've been a good pardner, too.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' if you've a soul it's clean and white--</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You ugly old scoundrel, you!</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in:</I><I> </I></div> <div> <A HREF="books.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books"><U><I>Songs Of The Workaday World</I></U></A><I>, </I><I>1915</I></div> <div> <A HREF="id297.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Anthologies"><U><I>Songs Of Horses: An Anthology</I></U></A><I>, 1920</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>