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Cowboy Poetry and Western Verse
Wind and Wire Musical
Tom Sheehan
There’s music, if you listen,
When the wind plays on a wire,
How it shivers on a high note
Like the best from any choir.
There’s a song left in the leaves
Of cottonwoods on the trail,
Just for riders checking wire,
Checking every post and nail.
That lost song is always heard,
As though its partner is the wind,
A cowboy duet in its joy;
Oh, great bonding being twinned.
And when the rider hears no song,
Hears no wire in the breeze,
Silence tells him it’s gone wrong
And his horse goes ill at ease.
Where wind and wire are music mates,
A cowboys and his horse are matched,
Tight as gloves upon the hands,
To make sure a fence gets patched.
The wind can whistle up a tune
Anytime it feels the urge,
And cowboys riding fence lines
Know where the two best merge.
For it’s the cowboy and his horse,
Perhaps the cattle in a lea,
Who hear the best of musicals,
Wind and wire’s soliloquy.
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