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13 Dec 08 - 01:16 PM (#2514382) Subject: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: open mike In Search of a cowboy christmas poem which has been published yearly in the St. Paul, MN newspaper for something like 90 years... does this ring a bell with any one? |
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13 Dec 08 - 01:52 PM (#2514409) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Q (Frank Staplin) What St. Paul newspaper? Star-Tribune? Do you remember any lines from the poem? Emailing a request to the newspaper might find an answer. |
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13 Dec 08 - 02:09 PM (#2514425) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: open mike am on star tribune's web site now searching. |
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13 Dec 08 - 04:19 PM (#2514517) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: katlaughing I've got something in the back of my mind, but not quite there, yet. IN the meantime, there are a couple listed on this page. Good luck! |
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14 Dec 08 - 10:40 PM (#2515430) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: open mike actually i was pleasantly surprised to find that my copy of this did survive the fire...i read it on my radio show yesterday and will try to transcribe it here if i get a chance..it is the night before christmas out on the range by the cowboy king of minnesota... |
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14 Dec 08 - 10:52 PM (#2515433) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Q (Frank Staplin) Please post if possible. Thanks, Q |
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15 Dec 08 - 12:09 AM (#2515456) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: katlaughing I'd love to read it, too, Laurel. In the meantime, take a look at This Painting and read some of the poems it inspired. Some of them are pretty good! I love the painting! |
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15 Dec 08 - 04:21 PM (#2516166) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Artful Codger Try www.cowboypoetry.com. You'll probably find it there. |
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15 Dec 08 - 04:54 PM (#2516193) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: open mike nope, you will only find it here... extra extra read all about it!! THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AT M' HOME ON THE RANGE By the "Cowboy King" of Arden Hills , Minnesota This poem has been printed annually since 1992 in "Bulletin Board," a daily feature of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minnesota. The author is known only by his Bulletin Board "handle." "Twere nigh onto Christmas, an' all 'round m' cabin Ya c'd hear cactus grow -- warn't a coyote gabbin'. M' long johns was propped on a stick by the fire In hopes that come mornin', they'd be warmer an' drier. The heifers were dreamin, outside on m' lands Nightmares 'bout me milkin' with cold mornin' hands.' M' horse slept indoors, an' the cabin smelled rank. It Were so cold outside, me an' him shared the blanket! When above, on the shakes, I heard hoof-beats skedaddle. I unholstered m' guns – somethin's scarin' the cattle! – Threw open the door, stood out on the porch Barefoot, buck-naked – jes' m' guns an' a torch The moonbeams that marched 'crost m' spread single-file Showed the snow was unbroken fer mile after mile. "Some ruckus," I shrugged. "Jes' the wind in the sage" – When 'crost the night sky comes the overland stage! (Well, m' seein's no good – ain't no cause to lodge pity – Lost m' specs playin' blackjack in Dodge City.) Overhead the stage twirled like a big wagon wheel, An' I reckon I felt like a buzzard's next meal. My eyeballs improvin' as each swoop it nears, I c'd see the stage pulled by some strange-lookin' steers! They ambushed m' ranch like a hound'll rout grouse— Tore a wall off the barn, an' knocked down the out house! Like a tumbleweed skitters which way the wind blows, Them varmints was loco (an' believe me, I knows!), An' then, from above me, I heard m' roof groan, An' figured m' ceilin' would drop like a stone. I yelled m'self raw, over jangles and jingles: "Git that stage off m' roof! Git them steers off m' shingles!" When, from somewhere behind me, I hears some galoot Crack out :"Pipe down, son!" as the room filled with soot! He'd clumb down m' chimney, this greenhorn so rude, An' one look at his rig says it all? "He's a dude!" His face was all whiskers – in a bag was his gear – His red suit must mean he was huntin' fer deer. He looked so dang silly, I guffawed through an' through, But I stopped when he said, "Son, yer skin's turnin' blue." I'll admit it looked strange didn't take much more proof Than me standin' buck-naked, eight steers on the roof . "M' brain must've friz up clean through to the marrow. 'Scuse m' bad manners, sir,"an' I doffed m' sombrero. I asks, "Where ya from, Gramps?" an' the dude says, "Up north." (Guess them Montana folks don't care how they go forth!) "I'll be drivin' all night," he said, "last light t' first. It's hard on ol' codgers -- but on reindeers it's worst. So I'm askin' a favor, an' I hopes you agrees: Lemme borry eight longhorns tonight, if ya please." "Ya got grit, dude," says I, as my six-guns I cock, "Bustin' up m' home spread, an' now rustlin' m' stock." "That's all been repaired," said he, scratchin' his nose. With a last "Much obliged!" up m' chimney he goes I were seein' dang good then as I recollects; That greenhorn done gimme a new pair o' specs! I looks out, an' sees a new barn in the fog; In m' new privy sits a fresh Sears catalog! But I still was uneasy – them longhorns was prime, An' fer reindeers I couldn't get nary a dime. "I'll be back afore down," say he, slappin' the traces, An' next thing I knowed, then whooshed over the mesas! But I heard him shout out, as his stage cleared the moon: "Happy trails t' ya, cowboy, 'til we meet again soon!" |
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15 Dec 08 - 05:34 PM (#2516222) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Q (Frank Staplin) Much obliged! |
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15 Dec 08 - 06:00 PM (#2516257) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Jim Dixon I posted it here in 2000: Lyr Add: Cowboy King's NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS--which is certainly where you found it, open mike. |
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15 Dec 08 - 07:29 PM (#2516361) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Uncle_DaveO Q, you should be advised that the Star-Tribune is NOT in or from St. Paul. It's from Minneapolis, and the Minneapolitans would take umbrage at your taking their excellent newspaper away to give it to that town across the river. "That town across the river," St. Paul, has a rag called the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Dave Oesterreich |
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15 Dec 08 - 07:33 PM (#2516367) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: katlaughing That's why it sounded familiar. Good grief...I've forgotten a lot in eight years!:-) |
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15 Dec 08 - 11:01 PM (#2516468) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Q (Frank Staplin) Uncle DaveO, if one looks at the heading on the Star-Tribune, one sees Star-Tribune, "Minneapolis-St. Paul Minnesota." It serves both of these outposts er, cities (Damn near as frozen as Calgary). |
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15 Dec 08 - 11:06 PM (#2516469) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Lonesome EJ That there poem had some rhymes that ought to be in runnin fer the worst rhymes thread, but I reckon I liked it purt good anyways. |
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16 Dec 08 - 12:55 AM (#2516519) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Liz the Squeak Would it be rude and insenstive to ask for a UK translation? :D LTS |
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16 Dec 08 - 01:37 AM (#2516534) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Artful Codger Is lame cowboy poetry called dogierel verse? |
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16 Dec 08 - 06:29 PM (#2517274) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: Stephen L. Rich Liz Most cowboy lingo doesn't have a translation in the Queen's English. Stephen Lee |
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17 Dec 08 - 12:29 AM (#2517453) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: open mike i wish the search had turned it up i would have rather cut and pasted it than typed it word for gol-durned word from a printed one i found tucked away in my cowboy song book! any way i read it over the air and had some fun with it, hey some of it is in the queen's english.. see: torch. what other words baffle you? skedaddle? skitter? i planto give the cajun one a try on saturday. if the station streaming gets up and running by then i will post a link... |
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18 Dec 09 - 03:51 PM (#2791514) Subject: RE: ISO: cowboy christmas poem From: open mike tis the time of the season.. to re-fresh this -- yee-haw! |