Country Colored Memories
There were rows and rows of the bright pink roseIt filled up my senses and tickled my nose From the roof of his house hung a honeysuckle vineStrung up out back by the old clothesline There wasn’t anything my grandad didn’t knowAbout drying out seeds and getting them to grow When you saw the sea…
Little boys will create storiestelling things to bring them the glory innocent enough they think it makes them toughthat’s the real reason little boys make up stuff but little boys will become menthey stop telling stories to let a woman in so now the man will take a wife Together they create a life a…
The Indians would see and hear them from the hill where they would stand. The mighty Buffalo, the gentle giants on the grasslands You could see and hear the sound on the ground. And the distant low thundering when they came around. A massive beast, a graceful sight to beholdNo doubt, the subject of the…
Sometimes life just doesn’t seem fairYou loose your teeth And you loose your hair You go to take a step but the steps not thereYou climb a flight of stairs it leaves you gasping for air You might even think you just want to quitBut There is a better-way to look at it You’ve had…
The hill where I lived as a small childlet me run free and even go wild The rocks were so big that we would climbplaying King of the mountain and singing nursery rhymes we were barefoot running up and down sandy roadsstopping now and then to try and catch horny toads there were toys all…
I heard the wheels on the gravel as daddy drove up in his pickup truckI realized that now my time was close to being up I was sitting in the corner, I had been here for a whileAll afternoon when mom came through the room she never cracked a smile The sound of daddy’s shoes…
Who burned grandad’s outhouse down The culprits were never found Many names came up for selection But somehow they managed to avoid detection The outhouse seemed the place to hide And sneak a smoke or just confide How that good looking girl at school Told you she thought you were cool Which handsome cousin would…
There was no privacy on a party-line if you were conversing with a friendanyone could pick up the phone and listen in we never had a smartphone in our pocketall the girls kept the boys’ numbers in their lockets Our long hair tangled in the phone line cordmom would undue it as she muttered Dear…
I went to work with my daddy one dayI thought I was just going to get to playbut it sure didn’t turn out that way He put a small hammer in my little handhanded me a junction box looked like a square tin can and he said to hit it right here and pull it…