Daylight Saving In Cactus Center Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHI JJ KKAA LMNNOOPP| Down here in Cactus Center we believe in savin' time | A |
| Unlike the waste of powder wastin' daylight is a crime | A |
| So we held a solemn meetin' down in Poker Johnson's place | B |
| And agreed that here in Cactus every clock must change its face | B |
| For Bear Hawkins said reflective it will give one hour more | C |
| For the studyin' by sunlight of this here draw poker lore | C |
| We are proud of all the sunshine that suffuses yonder range | D |
| If we was n't boosters for it it's be almighty strange | D |
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| But a shadder fell upon us when old Pegleg brought the mail | E |
| And he stumped in from his stage seat with his customary hail | E |
| For he said when we had told him of our daylight savin' plan | F |
| This is rough on pore old Pegleg you have got me on the pan | F |
| For they've just sent word from Lone Wolf that the old time schedule stays | G |
| And they say I'll run this bus line just as on all previous days | G |
| So I'd like to have you tell me how I'll land among you here | H |
| At the time I'm leavin' Lone Wolf Do I make my meanin' clear | I |
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| We are peaceful here in Cactus it takes lots to stir our ire | J |
| But this impudence from Lone Wolf set our fightin' blood afire | J |
| So we 'phoned the Two Bar foreman and the Star and Lazy Y | - |
| And we got word to the round ups and they let the brand irons lie | - |
| And the top hands come a peltin' from the wide and dusty plain | K |
| And we even took a sheepman though it went against the grain | K |
| Whereupon when all assembled we sent word Hunt trees to climb | A |
| For we're comin' over Lone Wolf and we'll make you change your time | A |
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| There's been battles over poker there's been bloodshed over booze | L |
| There's been men who've gone to Boot Hill 'cause of words that they would use | M |
| Men have been turned into lead mines for remarks misunderstood | N |
| Men who would n't drink have perished men have died because they would' | N |
| But the fight of fights was started when we entered Lone Wolf's streets | O |
| And we carried daylight savin' to the uttermost retreats | O |
| Though we lost some ten good gunmen we was pleased on takin' stock | P |
| When we found that we had shot holes in each laggin' Lone Wolf clock | P |
Arthur Chapman
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