| ID | Book Title | Composer | Index | Pages | Author | Poem Title | First Lines | Keywords |
|---|
| 51 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
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FC 11 A-05 |
11 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Driftin' Old Cowboy |
My Father got up; In the morning sun; He got his work finished; Before breakfast was done. |
cafe, waitress, broken down cowboy, luck |
| 52 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
12 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Montana Lady |
She's a country lady; She has strength in her pride; She's a lady through and through; Qualities you cannot hide. |
city girl, cowgirl, women, independence |
| 53 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
13 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
You'll Remember |
Oh the wide open skies of Montana; On a clear chilling night in December; The temperature so cold it takes your breath away; For this place called Montana you'll remember. |
Big Sky |
| 54 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
14 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
A Small Town on the Range |
A movie Thursday through Saturday only; A walk and window shopping down the street; Knowing each others business; This is the people in a small town you'll meet. |
neighbors, friends |
| 55 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
15 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Pick-Up Truck Cowboy |
I am just a pick-up truck cowboy; And I don't even have a ranch; Traveling' the blacktop to another rodeo; Maybe someday the bank will take a chance. |
road, travel, wide open spaces, independence |
| 56 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
16 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Where a Cowboy Lives |
I have become too much of the mountains; To live in the cities anymore; I will not trade my freedoms; For walking out in your back yard from my back door. |
law, rules, anti-society, independence |
| 57 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
17 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
My Promise Land |
Some have called me a drifter; Some have called me a flim-flam man; But all I really am is a pioneer; Looking for my promise land. |
promised land, travel |
| 58 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
18 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
The Good Old Days |
Bring me back to yesteryear; The simple times of the past; Grant me the joys of yesteryear; And make sure that they last. |
heart, soul, memories |
| 59 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
19 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
The Montanan Dream |
There was a Virginia City gold strike; In Eighteen Sixty-three; It lasted about ten years; That's what kept Montanans free. |
Big Horn, Custer, Indians, Big Sky, Montana |
| 60 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
21 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Country Christmas |
Snowflakes on the tree limbs; Christmas lights they are dim; From the chimney is the smoke; Sure is pretty to the folks; Well it's Country Christmas time again. |
holiday, Christmas tree, Christmas Eve, New Year, turkey, home, family |
| 61 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
22 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
I'm Mountain Country |
I like country music; Original rock n' roll; Crying time blues; And fifties-sixties gold. |
music, rock 'n' roll, barroom, dance, friends |
| 62 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
23 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
The Legend of Two Mountain Men |
There was two of them; A father and a son; They went to find a mate; Now look what they have done. |
1984, kidnapping, jogger, manhunt, breaking the law, violence |
| 63 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
24 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Someone Special |
My Grandfather lived on his ranch; And he liked to work mighty hard; He liked to ride his horses; In his two thousand acre back yard. |
grandpa, past, family, days gone by, grandfather |
| 64 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
25 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Now I Am a Grandfather |
Now that I am a Grandfather; And I've watched my children grow; I've said to them many a time; There is a story that you must know. |
grandfather, courage |
| 65 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
26 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Friday Nights at Stacey's |
It's a good old place to go; If you're feelin' kinda low; And have nothin' to do; Come on in and chew. |
bar, beer, dance, cigarette smoke, loneliness, cigarettes |
| 66 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
27 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
What I Like |
I like older women. |
houses, folks, snow |
| 67 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
28 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Ranch Land |
Ranch land, ranch land; Everywhere I look. |
ranch, catalog, book |
| 68 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
28 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Fat Calved Women |
I always wanted to be a cowboy; And play with cowboy toys; Horses and thin air, mountain mornings. |
independence, bar, hat, fat, fast cars |
| 69 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
29 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Campin' 81 |
Sleeping next to the camp fire with my kids. |
camping, 1981 |
| 70 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
36 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
My Quest |
Come with me my brother. |
Indians |
| 71 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
36 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Free At Last |
When the fields again will be filled with grass. |
reclaim, reclamation, future |
| 72 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
35 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
Surely He is Bound to Die |
The cowboys were always the heroes; The Indian was always the enemy; The cowboy wore the white hat; The Indian never wore any. |
land, Indians, |
| 73 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
34 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
The Indians Way |
You got to understand; To learn from the red man; We've got to understand; That we have to give back to the land. |
Indians, Mother Nature, land |
| 74 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
33 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
When the White Man Came |
When the white man came; In his heart he came with lies; He came with greed; It was in his eyes. |
Indians, treaties, Red Man, Whiteman |
| 75 |
A Montana Cowboy's Book |
|
FC 11 A-05 |
32 |
Don "Cheese" Akerlow |
A Good Day to Die |
Fighting for what is yours; Freedoms like the eagle that flies in the sky; You're proud to be a man; You would hear, it is a good day to die. |
Custer, Little Big Horn, Indians, pride |