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Several good songs about the rodeo:
Tom Russell, Bucking Horse Moon
Tom Russell, All This Way for the Short Ride
Dan Seals, Everything That Glitters (is not Gold)
Judy Collins, Someday Soon
Others?
(Earlier songs-with-related-themes post: Heartsignals)
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Rhinestone Cowboy ?
Ian Tyson, who wrote Someday Soon.
Ginny….huh…I knew Tyson had written Someday Soon & lots of other good songs, but wasn’t aware that he had himself been a rodeo rider.
“Lone Star Blues” — Delbert McClinton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwqPwEJ7m_I
Amarillo By Morning–
“I’ll be lookin’ for eight when they pull that gate, and I hope that judge ain’t blind.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrrsLZaY9s
Someday Soon … my parents were right: he did leave my crying, and I never did go with him. But I did love him. Alas, he loved thad damned old rodeo more than he did love me.
http://youtu.be/Z3S2ZOZni_8
But one or the other of us was always leaving on a jet plane …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3h3pnhg8s
What was the Garth Brooks song? – Rodeo (thanks to Google)
Emmy Lou Harris:Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
Chicago and mob connected to Dassault’s military with Cheney & Rove.
This led to Zetas infiltration of Washington with ” Starz”.
Horsea followed with ” Ted Tots” and Texas NRA- IRA- PLO.
Which led to a billion dollar empire with physicians looking for organs harvests.
They called it Jestocco – Jezdynamite with ” The Rocce”.
Needless to say, half of Hollywood is into ” LA Seas”.
They call ” Playdota”.
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He certainly has a talent for connecting the dots.
I was wondering about that but thought he had some insight that I didn’t ….