Daddy
(reba mcentire)
My daddy is a rancher
Hes wrangled cattle dang near all his life
He also liked to rodeo
He traveled around with four kids and a wife
Well his old ranch is rocky
But his ropes sail smooth for several years
He worked real hard
And roped real good
And tried to get his ranch out in the clear
He didnt want us kids to rodeo
He wanted more out of life for us
Maybe banking, or a lawyer
Or maybe even driving some old bus
Well thats when we took up singing
And his pride grew greater day by day
And I know his eyes grew misty
The night I sang up on the opry stage
Chorus:
Now his ranch is so much bigger
The the days when he first started
The grass grows now where none used to be
His roping got him started
Cattle prices made it better
And hes trying to get his ranch out in the clear
Five years ago september, he bought more steers and hung up all his
Ropes
But he often tells the stories about the rodeos he won and cowboy jokes
Well its funny that the first big roping that he won some thirty years
Ago
Was the same day that I sang on the stage of the grand old opry show
Repeat chorus
Now hes feeding cattle
Toting hay
And branding the y.o.
And his hired hands there to help him
And she also cooks their meals when they get home
They built their ranch together
And listening to the kids sing through the years
Well they worked real hard and roped real good and now they got their
Ranch
Out in the clear
Because when a family works together
They finally get their ranch out in the clear
Out in the clear
song performed by by Reba Mcentire
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Its a dream vacation way out west
Yeah, its a soulful scene if you know what I mean
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Madcowed At The Ranch
The most effective degradation to come along,
To affect the current human condition...
And state of mind,
Has occurred within the past eight years!
And there are those cheering statements of progress...
With encouragement this stance should maintain its course.
And sustain this disasterous direction for another hundred?
To protect a way of life,
Those on foreign lands already control and manipulate...
Without seasoned propaganda!
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Between bar-b-que...
And miscued speeches given?
Had they too been madcowed at the ranch?
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To keep an icecube bristling a cool taste,
For a Long Island Tea that sits in one hundred degree heat!
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Are those off camera,
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Texas.
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Mind I wanted to be a sheriff, but first I had to learn, how to
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There to greet a working man when his day is done
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The architect angel held juda ranch.
Just a dirty mile down on the borderline.
Where he mastered blastin and hustled young cattle for slaughter
And dated judas daughter.
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His six-guns were pumpin through.
His tongue hung low like sawdust scrapin across the plains.
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Yore daddy runs sheep and mah uncle runs cattle
Nothin can keep us out of this battle they wage
As it burns up the range, til no man is left
In the saddle
Yore ranch is upstream and they dammed up the water
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Upon this pore old farmers house
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Nothing has changed except maybe change for the worst
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You wouldnt be lost to the range war
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Mystery lay within the blooms of May,
As it stirs in bare boned branches.
Let cattle roam a world from home,
But know they’d be just as happy at the ranch.
Take me away upon your wings
Beseech to me a song to sing
To relieve the aching Reality brings
So merrily in her stride.
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Grows in blooming as the green man swoons
The presence of the wood nymphs sets his heart alight,
As he joins in dancing the first dance of life into the world a new.
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The Happening
They got a ranch they call
Number fifty-one
They got a ranch they call
Number fifty-one
Cant see it all
less your flying by
Just sitting there square
Baking in the sun
Beneath the sky
Theyre gonna put it down
Right on the strip
Theyre gonna put it down
On the vegas strip
Theyre gonna put it down
And step outside
Into the lights
Right outta that ship
Saying hi!
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When they put it on the air I put it in the hammer lane
I soon forgot myeslf and I forgot about the brake
I forgot all laws and I forgot about the rain
They were talking on the 9 and all across the amy band
Across the road they were turning around and headed south with me
It got so crowded on the road I started driving in the sand
My head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free
The desert turned to mud it seems that everybody heard
Everybody was remembering to forget they had the chills
Then I heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird
They were getting interviewed by some goodman whose name was bill
Im almost there to vegas where theyre puttin on a show
Theyve come so far Ive lived this long at least I must just go and say
Hello
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Disgrace There Is No Escape
Disgrace, there is no Escape.
There was this Norwegian, a gifted violinist he had won prizes in Moscow
and Warsaw, His debut was held in Oslo community hall, yes, the same
place the Nobel committee glad hands peace prizes to the mostly unworthy.
He played an Edward Grieg piece. Everything went well the public gasped
at his ability, then an accident, his trousers fell down, he wore pink lady
knickers. A shocked silence, then a titter, but soon laughter rolled around
the hall. The unlucky fiddler stopped playing couldn’t understand way
the audience laughed, till he looked down, saw his trousers rest on his shoes.
He tried to pull up his pants, lost his violin, stumbled and fell. The laughter
was merciless and never ending. He fled the country as a second cook on
ship bound for Argentina. There he got a job as a cowhand on a ranch in
the deepest pampas and grew a beard. Two years later thinking all was
behind him a newcomer came to the ranch, looked at the violinist and said:
” aren’t you the bloke who lost his trousers? ”
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Three days a week and I'm home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.
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Etiquette
What is she selling?
Who are her buyers?
But i am only doing my job to updat my mind with you;
So eat like that and dance like that too for your lover.
Dress like that and think of the Modus Operandi;
like one leg in and one leg out on this love game.
Now, the hunter is being hunted;
Now, the writer is being questioned;
Like a protocol to a school far away from home.
Just say it and do it for love,
Because the matter at hand is pregnant!
Cool, fool, root, wool, sail, jail;
Like shooters from a hill aiming at the lovers' camp.
The people around you have seen it and,
Wonders shall never end;
Like a protocol to a school far away from home.
When did you leave your deco?
Please, practice some more and the glory will be your's;
Because, i will rather work than go to jail.
Need before greed,
Heed before speed,
Feed before seed,
Deed before weed,
Reed before screed,
Breed before tweed,
Like the Blue River Ranch with etiquette;
They say time heals everything but,
It is not always true.
You are more beautiful in real life than this fruit,
So, who is to be blamed? !
Often killed than rather cared for,
But a bird doesn't follow the cow for nothing.
Like all his life on water,
Like all her life in school,
With bitter pains and sweet success;
But the press have not read about it.
Life is like a message for the mouse and the house,
Inspired by the colours of nature to taste this fruit;
But the days are long and the nights short.
Of bitter pains and sweet success,
Like the etiquette of the Blue River Ranch;
But when a crafty man buries himself,
His hands still remain above the ground.
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