IF A COWBOY ASKS YOU IF YOU CAN HELP

 

If a cowboy asks you if you can help

Round up his nineteen cows

Just smile and say “Yes, of course”

That would be twenty cows”

LONG AGO IN THE OLD WILD WEST

 

Long ago in the

        Old Wild West

With empty pockets

         In his vest

Into the frontier

        Town of Conroy

Rode a ragged

        Looking cowboy

He tied up by

       The towns hotel

And found a man

       A tale to tell

He said that he

       Had bad luck

And all he needed

       Was a buck

The man took him

       To the saloon

Saying if you drink       

          From the spittoon

Ill give you fifty

       Take time to think

Fifty dollars

       If you take a drink

The cowboy nodded

        And then said yes

He was willing

       Well more or less

He held the spittoon

       Up to his lip

He took a breath

       And then a sip

He drank his fill

       Till all was gone

The man paid up

       And said well done

You really earned

       This money well

 But I must say this

       If truth to tell

I would have paid you

       Just to try

You did not need

       To drink it dry

Why didn’t you stop?

       Are you a chump?

I couldn’t stop

       It was in one lump