<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420269" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>the Seated Dollar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Murder of Wild Bill Hitchcock,08/02/76) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He tossed it down upon the bar, <br>careless of its worth and weight.<br>To ease his thirst required Whiskey<br>Then he’d find a woman for a “date”.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saddle weary and in pain<br>From the Long and Dusty trail<br>Bill had rode hard to reach Cheyenne <br>to rest his boot on this bar rail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His fate that day did not include<br>A decent bath or indecent touch-<br>The Men he gambled with grew angry<br>His fast gun hand –not fast enough</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone grabbed that silver dollar<br>Not bothering to check the date.<br>The body, whitened with death’s pallor, .<br>the dead man’s hand; the Aces and Eights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The seasons turned and turned again<br>Whole generations turned to dust<br>The pilfered dollar was collected<br>Inherited, passed on in Trust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lay it gently on the velvet<br>Careful of its worth and weight<br>my seated Dollar set requires<br>a specimen of this grade and date<br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420269" data-title="The Seated Dollar de John F. McCullagh" data-description="(Murder of Wild Bill Hitchcock,08/02/76) He tossed it down upon the bar, careless of its worth and weight. To ease his thirst required Whiskey Then he’d find a woman for a “date”. Saddle weary and in pain From the Long and Dusty trail Bi..."></div> </div> </div>

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