Short Legged Cowboys

Short-legged cowboys ‘n long-legged horses
Now it just don’t seem quite fair,
The stirrup’s too high for his toe holt
Cause they’s way up in the air.

Now cow horses don’t kneel like camels
Givin a sawed-off cowboy a chance,
To get a short-legged toe in the stirrup
Without rippin his daggone pants.

When a horse gets to know his problem
He just might not cooperate,
And it makes any short-legged cowboy
Mad enough to incinerate.

And once he’s mounted and on the trail
There’s nothin more that he hates,
Than have to get down out on the prairie
And open them bob wire gates!

When he’s finally ridin enjoyin his work
Nothin else makes him madder,
Than to have to climb down off his hoss
Just to empty his hurtin bladder.

Gettin stuck leadin his leggy caballo
To find the right rock or ditch,
Him on a rock or his mount in a hole
His hoss figures out the hitch.

Like ‘ol Poncho a short-legged cowboy
With the biggest pot-belly yet,
He could take a shower in a washtub
Without ever gettin his feet wet.

He’d get his hoss lined up to a bank
And just as he reached his goal,
His hoss would step out in the arroyo
And ‘ol Poncho fell in the hole.

When Poncho finally got mad enough
At the tricks of his ornery roan,
He’d get revenge and show whose boss
By makin his hoss walk home!

But short-legged cowboys figger out ways
To overcome their demise,
Like usin sky hooks and elevator heels
Just to overcome their size.

How does a sawed-off cowboy make it?
When his stirrups are up to the flaps,
He either rides a short-legged swayback
Or pulls real hard on his bootstraps!

Cowboy Shorty’s been doin it for years
With good ol’ Dan his best friend,
It’s not that Shorty he ain’t tall enough
He’s just too short on one end

Yup he learnt to grab the saddle horn
And swing himself astraddle,
On his lanky hoss and a ten gallon hat
He’s rides’em tall in the saddle.

Now about those long-legged cowgirls
Well son that’s another story,
They love short-legged rodeo cowboys
For fun and fame and glory.

Ed Keenan ©11-00

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