For Daddy

I bought about a dozen cookbooks today at a garage sale and one is called 'Kansas Cookin' and inside is a poem that is not at all credited and I found it online and it says 'author unknown'.  I really like it and give all kinds of snaps to the author, whoever he is.

Cowboy Life

I've met a heap o' cowboys, and some were real top hands.

I saw a million cattle, and read a lot o' brands.

I've seen some hard old winters, when nearly all the cattle died.

I've rode some cuttin' horses that could turn right out their hides.

I ate my share o' beefsteak, and drunk some whiskey too. 

An' done a little dancin' with nothin' else to do

'Been bucked off old outlaws that I couldn't start to ride,

An' saw some great old buddies go over the Great Divide.

With friends and family now I'm makin' my last stand

An hopin to be horseback when I reach  the Promised Land