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I Could O’ Been Annie Oakley

1/13/2017

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I Could O’ Been Annie Oakley
 
BY Donna Penley
  
I get t’ thinkin’ sometimes, what I  could o’ been –
Back in th’ days, th’ western days,  I long t’ have lived in.
 
I could o’ toted me a gun, been one o’ those fancy shooters –
 Annie Oakley, or Ms.Belle  sStarr – real dagme rootin’ tooters!
 
I’d a known ol’ Jesse James,Bbutc hCcassody, th’Ssundance Kid;
Rrode with Wild Bill Hikock – seen an’ done what all he did.
 
I’d a toted me a forty four, or maybe a thirty two --
Which wouldn’t a kicked as hard as them  ol’ 6 guns do!
 
I’d a had me one fast hoss, one who jest could not be beat;
 Taken pocket money from th’ rubes, an’ not even had t’ cheat!
 
We’d a gone from town t’ town, an’ taken on their best,
O, perhaps I’d a been a lady sheriff with a tin star on m’ vest?
 
I’d a shown them ol’male chauvanists jest what a gal could do;
An, ’if they didn’t treat me right,, I’d a shot th’ ol’ galoots!
 
Maybe I’da’ been a ladyoutlaw – robbin’  trains an’ banks;
An’ rode with ol’ Cole Younger’s gang – fit right in their ranks!
 
 I’d a  give th’ spoils t’ poor folks,  so’s they’d have things they did need
Bought ‘em mules an’ plows, an such -- an’ even plantin’ seed!
 
But, ya see, I was born too late,  an’iIt makes me kinda sad –
If I’d a been born in frontier days, I’d a been real glad.
 
So,  sometimes when I get t’ feelin’ sorta all fenced in --
I jest set back an’ daydream on what I could a been!!
 
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    Donna Penley is a Cowgirl Poet with deep Kansas roots who has been writing cowboy poetry for over twenty five years. She is a real Cowgirl and an ex-barrel racer.

    Donna writes about all phases of cowboy life, with lots of humor woven in. Her poem Carrie Nation hangs in the Carrie Nation Museum in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

    As a benefit for the blind and sight impaired, Great Empire Broadcasting produced a cassette tape of her poetry and distributed it to all Kansas public libraries (
    No Preservatives Added : a collection of cowboy poetry).

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