The City Girl
I was a girl that was born and raised in the city
To my great delight I ended up in the country
From childhood it had been my hearts desire
To raise cows, horses and string barbed wire
Ranches and Farms seemed the most wonderful places
Everywhere you look are wide open spaces
To hear the trees rustling or birds flying low
When I experienced it's magnificence, I never wanted to go
Country folks are real and brutally honest
They live by their word, and never break a promise
The days work, starts early & by 8 you've just begun
By 10, they come in for breakfast/lunch that will last them till there done
Now today I live that hard simple life on a farm/ranch outside town
There horses & cows, tractors, & plows with barbed wire on the ground
As I work out in the garden and I feel a soft warm breeze
I see what seems like a thousand Egrets nesting in the trees
The air is filled with magnolia blooms and orange blossoms
In the garden rows I see tracks left by coons and Opossums
The country, it's a good but hard place to raise families
Wisdom is learned along with common sense as one grows up practically
So much time has passed since I was that girl, raised in the city
No I'm not the same, life out here has made me pretty tough & gritty
Is that a complaint, and if I could change things would I choose a different dance
Well the best way I can say this is simply, ...... Not A Chance.
My life has been good, and I'm right where I should be
Even though my husband's gone, he left me thousands of memories
Today there are so many people working on this ranch
Herding cattle to the bottom to graze & drink from the branch
Others have been cutting, and rolling hay out in the fields
Everything Tom planted, is bringing in a good yield
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In the summer of 2011 Tom Carter raised more Corn than anyone in four counties during the worst drought in Texas history. In 2012 he took a chance and planted wheat & barley for the first
Time ever on this ranch. The first 50 rolls of barley were rolled today off of a 15 acres test patch. Next week they start cutting the wheat. I think Tom is smiling.
Cowboys & Cowmen
Cowboys aren't found just at the
rodeo grounds
To the average man, the cowboy
astounds
He never explains himself, even to
those for which he cares
Most times he'd rather be left
alone, fooling with stock & old mares
You see they understand each other
with little conversation
The cowboy turns & locks eye to eye
with one of God's creations
Sometimes he and a wild bronc
will go round & round
It's just a matter of time to see
which on will hit the ground
He will never give up on breaking
& settling this creature
Many times I've sat and watched
wondering which one is the teacher
But that's the way of a cowboy,
though I prefer to call him a cowman
They never give up, even when
they're bankrupt, their attitude is... I Can.
I can move a mountain only it is not
a mountain I need to move
So he kneel's and prays looks to God
and says together this field we can improve
I can work my hands and back in this
field no matter what the pain
So God if you will do your part, we
really need some rain.
So when the day is finished and I'm
nursing his cuts, bruises, aches,
I say, to you, so you think you want to be
a Cowman, this & so much more, is what it takes.
There are no vacations and the job is 24/7
your truck will have dozens of dents
When you finish buying feed, fertilizer, & seed,
your blessed, if you've still got 50 cents
*************************
Last year Tom was having surgery, As the nurse rolled him off to the operating room. Tom looked at me with that sparkle in his eye & said don't worry I'm coming back, cause it's been fun.
Yes it was.
I was a girl that was born and raised in the city
To my great delight I ended up in the country
From childhood it had been my hearts desire
To raise cows, horses and string barbed wire
Ranches and Farms seemed the most wonderful places
Everywhere you look are wide open spaces
To hear the trees rustling or birds flying low
When I experienced it's magnificence, I never wanted to go
Country folks are real and brutally honest
They live by their word, and never break a promise
The days work, starts early & by 8 you've just begun
By 10, they come in for breakfast/lunch that will last them till there done
Now today I live that hard simple life on a farm/ranch outside town
There horses & cows, tractors, & plows with barbed wire on the ground
As I work out in the garden and I feel a soft warm breeze
I see what seems like a thousand Egrets nesting in the trees
The air is filled with magnolia blooms and orange blossoms
In the garden rows I see tracks left by coons and Opossums
The country, it's a good but hard place to raise families
Wisdom is learned along with common sense as one grows up practically
So much time has passed since I was that girl, raised in the city
No I'm not the same, life out here has made me pretty tough & gritty
Is that a complaint, and if I could change things would I choose a different dance
Well the best way I can say this is simply, ...... Not A Chance.
My life has been good, and I'm right where I should be
Even though my husband's gone, he left me thousands of memories
Today there are so many people working on this ranch
Herding cattle to the bottom to graze & drink from the branch
Others have been cutting, and rolling hay out in the fields
Everything Tom planted, is bringing in a good yield
******************************
In the summer of 2011 Tom Carter raised more Corn than anyone in four counties during the worst drought in Texas history. In 2012 he took a chance and planted wheat & barley for the first
Time ever on this ranch. The first 50 rolls of barley were rolled today off of a 15 acres test patch. Next week they start cutting the wheat. I think Tom is smiling.
Cowboys & Cowmen
Cowboys aren't found just at the
rodeo grounds
To the average man, the cowboy
astounds
He never explains himself, even to
those for which he cares
Most times he'd rather be left
alone, fooling with stock & old mares
You see they understand each other
with little conversation
The cowboy turns & locks eye to eye
with one of God's creations
Sometimes he and a wild bronc
will go round & round
It's just a matter of time to see
which on will hit the ground
He will never give up on breaking
& settling this creature
Many times I've sat and watched
wondering which one is the teacher
But that's the way of a cowboy,
though I prefer to call him a cowman
They never give up, even when
they're bankrupt, their attitude is... I Can.
I can move a mountain only it is not
a mountain I need to move
So he kneel's and prays looks to God
and says together this field we can improve
I can work my hands and back in this
field no matter what the pain
So God if you will do your part, we
really need some rain.
So when the day is finished and I'm
nursing his cuts, bruises, aches,
I say, to you, so you think you want to be
a Cowman, this & so much more, is what it takes.
There are no vacations and the job is 24/7
your truck will have dozens of dents
When you finish buying feed, fertilizer, & seed,
your blessed, if you've still got 50 cents
*************************
Last year Tom was having surgery, As the nurse rolled him off to the operating room. Tom looked at me with that sparkle in his eye & said don't worry I'm coming back, cause it's been fun.
Yes it was.
