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Date Posted: 19:10:47 06/06/08 Fri
Author: Gunslinger
Author Host/IP: 84.sub-70-197-229.myvzw.com / 70.197.229.84
Subject: Drouth

Drought

The prairie grass is short, and brown
The pastures, powder dry;
The stock looks like it’s losing weight-
A week short of July.

The April showers never came-
Nor thunderstorms in May,
“It’s likely to get purty dry”-
I heard one old rancher say.

Last year we got a foot of rain-
An inch a month, broke down.
No wonder all the tanks are low,
And cracks form in the ground.

There hasn’t been a cloud in weeks-
At least not from the west.
If there’s a hope for rain in June,
That direction is the best.


The unrelenting sun beats down,
The winds are from the south…
Until a real one comes along,
I’d sure call this a drouth.

"When it rains, it pours,” somebody said-
The same holds true with “dry”.
A man won’t likely clear a dime,
When he’s feedin’ in July.

The worse you need to cull your herd-
The lower prices go…
You cain’t “give” a calf away,
Around San Angelo.

The grass is gone, the “pear” are scarce-
The “fifties” seen to that.
If there’s a thing the stock can eat,
I don’t know where it’s at.

The cattle business always was-
A little “hand to mouth”
But it’s ‘financial suicide”
When the country’s in a drouth.

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