The Cowboy's Life

The bawl of a steer,
To a cowboy's ear,
Is music of sweetest strain;
And the yelping notes
Of the gray coyotes
To him are a glad refrain

And his jolly songs
Speed him along
As he thinks of the little gal
With golden hair
Who is waiting there
At the bars of the home corral.

For a kingly crown
In the noisy town
His saddle he wouldnÕt change;
No life so free
As the life we see
Way out on the Yaso range.

His eyes are bright
And his heart as light
As the smoke of his cigarette;
There's never a care
For his soul to bear,
No trouble to make him fret.

The rapid beat
Of his bronco's feet
On the sod as he speeds along
Keeps living time
To the ringing rhyme
Of his rollicking cowboy song.

Hike it cowboys,
For the range away
On the back of a bronc of steel,
With a careless flirt of a rawhide quirt
And a dig of a roweled heel.

The winds may blow
And the thunder growl
Or the breezes may safely moan;
A cowboy's life,
His saddle his kingly throne.

Saddle up, boys,
For the work is play
When love's in the cowboy's eyes
When his heart is light
As the clouds of white
That swim in the summer skies.

Bill W. Long

August 2, 1922 • February 27, 1996

Services
Criswell Chapel
Friday, March 1, 1996
2:00 P.M.

Officiating
Rev. Raymond McDowell
Rev. John Bauch

Interment
Rosedale Cemetery

Prayer for Today
When we have suffered a loss, help us, we
pray, Lord, to focus on the blessings we
have and not what we have lost. Thank you
for watching over us, Lord, Amen.

Order of Service

Opening Prayer Rev. Raymond McDowell

Obituary and Comments Dr. Guy William Logsdon

Message Rev. Raymond McDowell

Closing Prayer Rev. John Bauch

Graveside

Congregational Singing Amazing Grace

Graveside Rite Rev. John Bauch

CRISWELL FUNERAL HOME
815 E. Arlington
Ada, Oklahoma

Submitted By ©Randal & Angie Jenkins Long 2002