I used to be a cowboy, but quite a while ago <br />I quit my job and now boy, I'm makin' twice the dough <br />I'm a dude ranch cowboy <br />Every saturday is rodeo, we ride and rope and shoot <br />I guess we put on quite a show, the way the people hoot <br />The bulls and broncos that we top, are trained to give a show <br />Why I don't get an honest job, I guess I'll never know. <br />I've learned to build a smoke, one handed from the sack <br />Just like the movie cowpoke, from a buckin' broncos back <br />I'm a dude ranch cowboy <br />Young gals come to dude ranches, to learn to ride and rope <br />But their parents take no chances, they send a chaperone <br />I've learned to use that cowboy twang, you hear at the picture show <br />But what I'm saying' I'll be hanged, if half the time I know. <br />I used to sing to the rhythm of the hoof beats of my horse <br />Now I play a big guitar and yodel too of course <br />I'm a dude ranch cowboy <br />Herdin' dudes instead of doggies, playing' wet nurse to old foggies <br />And all dressed up like a cowboy movie star <br />We have to call them guests, but they're dudes here in the west <br />Where a mans a man and the gals are glad they are.<br /><br />Kenneth T. Schofield<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dude-ranch-cowboy/
