How are you there cowboy, I hope you are well,
Jest light from your saddle and rest fer a spell.
Here are the makin’s, so roll you a smoke,
Yure jest out uh town and I bet you are broke.
Yuh looks like old hunger was a ridin’ yuh hard,
So sit down and eat—you are welcome old pard.
I put a lot uh years at a ridin’ the range,
But now I am wrasslin’ pots fer a change.
Now I ain’t no chef like that Del-mon-a-co,
But I sabes the mixin’ of old sour dough.
I sorts all the big rocks out uh the beans,
And I don’t wipe the fryin’ pans off on my jeans.
Muh chuck is all right, and the wagon kept neat;
If yuh don’t like the cookin’, yuh don’t haf tuh eat.
Oh, I’m a pot wrassler, but I ain’t no dub,
Fer I’m close to my bed, and I’m close to the grub.
I’m a leetle bit old, and I don’t want no truck
With horn hookin’ cattle, ner horses that buck.
I’ve rode a long time and my laigs is all bowed;
I’ve got to the age thet I’m easily throwed.
I got the rheumatics and my hands is all burned,
My joints is all stiff and my belly’s all churned.
Now I’m a pot wrassler, yure a-hearin’ me shout,
So come on and get it, ‘fore I throws it out.
You fellers rope steers to down ’em and tie ’em,
Then I comes along to skin ’em and fry ’em.
I got forty a month, and the cookin’ to do,
So I’m all through bein’ a cow buckeroo.
When you punchers is out in the blizzard and storm,
I’m close to the fire, where I keeps myself warm.
So do yure old ridin’, you wild galoots,
And I’ll wrassle pots, you can just bet yure boots.
(Curley Fletcher)
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