A Collection: A B (banjo) Paterson

[rayheinrich]

thanks for the heads up ray. i'll see if i can put it right later.

Thanks. I heard that one years ago, your Banjo post brought back memories.
Banjo, at least many years back, was much worshiped down here in Texas.
I'd never heard most of those poems though. Thanks for putting them up.

I said: "This is the stuff Texans pretend to be."
I should have said "modern-day Texans".
I'm sure the old ones were every bit the equal. Or so my grandpa used to
tell me -- he was known to embroider a bit.  For part of his life he was a
traveling salesman; he sold barbed-wire to the ranches. He got the King Ranch
contract for a few years, made him somewhat rich -- not that it took him much
time to go through it. He carried a 32 tucked in the small of his back.
"A woman's gun", he'd say, "but it's enough to give them pause".
(I still have that 32, got it from my grandma.)