Different Slants

Robert M. Katzman’s Amazing Story:  http://www.differentslants.com/?p=355

By Robert M. Katzman © February 1, 2013

 

At Dead Man’s Curve

My hot rod swerved

All eighteen wheels sliding

But I twern’t afear’d

That rod was carved from a Model T

Kissed by Henry Ford

An’ afore that, a covered wagon

Racing west through the plains

Flaming arrows piercing the air

My pretty blonde grandma

Screaming and pumpin’ her Winchester

Because damn country people can!

We can hunt bear with an ax

An’ eagles with spears

An’ fish with a machine gun

Damn trout’ll never know what hit ‘em!

 

We farm our land with oxen

Grow turnips, peaches n’ walnuts

If the gov’ment men ain’t lookin’

Harvest weed by the bushel

Yeah, we country fellers got tradition

We got Passover in ol’ Alabam

Brisket with biskets are tasty

Jack Daniels ‘n matzoh’s the cat’s meow

We’re kin of the Confederacy

Part-Creole and part-French

Part-Cherokee and part-Crockett

An’ all them colors don’t run

Unless Wal-Mart comes calling

An’ then them colors are

Homespun and tie-dyed

Because damn country people can!

We make moonshine in the sunshine

Our women are hot, ready to trot

Even after twenty country kids

Never ever too tired for lovin’ their man!

We like leather boots n’ Tennessee guns

Bowie knives made a oak n’ steel

We bind up our wounds, take care our kin

And live in a world of our own

We elect good ol’ boys to vote our passions

Not New York’s, LA’s or Portland’s

We’re in it, not of it, n’ don’t you forget it–

Because damn country people can!

About the writer and his other life in Skokie, Illinois:

Bob Katzman’s : www.oldmagazinestore.com  100,000 periodicals back to 1576!

bob@oldmagazinestore.com
4906 Oakton St. (8000 north and 4900 west) Skokie, Ill 60077
(847) 677-9444 Mon-Fri: 11 am to 4 pm / Saturday: 10 am to 2 pm

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