Sunday, February 05, 2006

This Horserider -



Upright in his saddle, riding true, riding tall,
just easing along beside fences and wall,
he's come for the thrills of competing quite soon
at the Innamincka rodeo whch starts around noon.

He is burnt a sun bronze by the Capricorn glare,
he is handsome, he is tough with a far outback stare
that comes from flat country and seein' for miles
but his skin easily ---------------------.

The ride down from Birdsville has been lonely and hot
but this far in the outback they are used to their lot.
He knows of the "Dig Tree" and the tragedies there,
it's where Burke and Wills perished after Gulf Carpentair.

Born, then bred to a saddle from very early in life
some drinkin' - some carousin' - but kept out of strife.
He knows about cattle spread out over this land,
the muster, the bluster, -----------------.

He has ridden Strzelecki, the soft sandy creek
also the dirt track where lesser men weep,
before passing the "Corner" of Cameron fame
then on to Tibooburra where they all know his name.

This Rider, you see -------------
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that will last - it will last.

© Rimeriter