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Cowboy Poetry and Western Verse
THE COUNTRY BOY
Joel T. Bailey
The country life is gone
But not the country boy
He's got his memories
That still bring him joy
Like the times he had
At a country school
Learning to read and write
And the golden rule
Running thru the fields
And down the gravel roads
Chasing the country girls
With snakes and toads
Playing around the barn
Having corncob fights
And setting fishing lines
On warm summer nights
Picking cotton, pulling corn
And shelling butterbeans
Setting down to a supper
Of ham and collard greens
The family gathered round
The old battery radio
Listening to the singers
On the Grand Ole Opry show
Hearing the whippoorwills
Making their lonely cry
And listening to the rain
Play a tin top lullaby
Only his memories remain
Of the life back then
But what he'd give to relive
Those country times agin
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