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Michaeldavitt In reply to solstjarn [2012-01-19 04:07:29 +0000 UTC]
yes, I think you would like it! thanks for your interest
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Wolfdrappa95 [2011-09-23 22:17:09 +0000 UTC]
Long live Billy the Kid!
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ChristianistheLawr [2010-01-29 10:58:51 +0000 UTC]
If I ever go to America, I'll visit it. I'm far more interested in the memories of the ol' West than them big modern cities...
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Michaeldavitt In reply to ChristianistheLawr [2010-01-29 15:23:28 +0000 UTC]
thanks for your kind note. here's a poem for you:
"The Poetic History Of Billy the Kid"
William Bonney was small and slight
A skinny fellow short in height
Young, strong, courageous and brave
That’s what would lead him to his grave
The boy became an outlaw at a very young age
It started in a fight he chose to engage
At 18 years old the first man he did kill
Was a blacksmith named Frank Cahill
This would start his dark and dangerous course
The kid with a crooked grin and hardly no remorse
From Arizona to New Mexico he would go
Landing a job with rancher Frank B. Coe
He then met up with Englishman Tunstall’s gang
From there the Kid’s life would never be the same
John Tunstall took a fancy to Billy
Gave him gifts of a saddle, new guns and a filly
Jimmy Dolan was the leader in town
He wanted his competition to be taken down
Tunstall met his fate alone
His name was written upon a stone
Billy vowed to kill the ones responsible for the death of his friend
And that’s where Billy the Kid’s legacy would begin
The Regulators were born a few days later
First they would start with Morton and Baker
They waited in Lincoln for Brady to arrive
To assassinate the sheriff and take his life
The Kid was indicted and sure to hang
Along with a few others in his gang
The Lincoln County fight was now a war
All this started over a general store
Buckshot Roberts rode with Dolan’s posse the day Tunstall was killed
It cost him his life in the gunfight at Blazer’s Mill
Dick Brewer lost his life in the very same way
And they were laid to rest side by side on the very same day
Dolan’s wrong doings were often hid
And the law came down on Billy the Kid
A five-day shootout at Alex McSween’s
Still finds the Kid alive and free
The death of Chapman Billy did see
He said I will testify if you will pardon me
Lew Wallace granted the Kid’s request
He was brought to Lincoln under arrest
After awhile the Kid became disturbed
Afraid that Wallace wouldn’t keep his word
Kicking up dust on the trail from Lincoln County
Upon Billy’s head comes a $500 bounty
Dead or alive Billy the Kid must be found
And his long time friend the new sheriff in town
Pat Garrett would hold Billy up at Stinking Springs
He captured the outlaw and vows justice he’ll bring
William Bonney was sentenced to hang on the 13th day
In 1881 in the month of May
To the outhouse Billy did go
Where he got the gun no one will ever know
As he climbed the stairs, the legend would tell
He turned and with the pistol shot Deputy Bell
Back up to the room where he had been bound
With Ollinger’s 10-guage shotgun he looked around
From the window; all he said
Was “Hello Bob”! Then shot him dead
No lawman or jail would tie him down
He escapes again to ride out of town
Billy the Kid would stay on the run
Yet meet his fate, through the barrel of a gun
Pat Garrett and his men were lying low
Late one night in Fort Sumner, New Mexico
As Billy’s lone figure approached the Maxwell house
The deputies sat quite as a mouse
When he stepped upon the porch the deputies he would see
As he backed into the door he said, “who is it?” to Pete
Sheriff Pat Garrett was about 6’4
It was his bullet that left the Kid dead on the floor
They say he killed a man for every year of his life
He was good with a gun and good with a knife
William Bonney’s short life was violent and cruel
But he always lived by his own simple rules
Billy the Kid’s life will always be
Forever in our minds a mystery
Yet on and on it will go
The Mysterious legend of “El Chivato”
Virginia Clark
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ChristianistheLawr In reply to Michaeldavitt [2010-01-29 21:56:06 +0000 UTC]
Very good poem.
I totally like the scene where he kills Ollinger. Especially in Peckinpah verse:
"Keep the change, Bob."
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