I wish I was Roy

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    I wish I was Roy

    May 5 05'

     I wish I was Roy

    there is not a night that

    I don’t think of you

    a ghost in my dreams

    a shadow of a shadow of something

    that moves in the night

    above my head

    like a small white cloud

    that my soul will not let go

    so you stay in my dreams

    someone from long ago

    when I was your hero

    you were my friend

    talking just to talk

    listening when it was time

    I wish you had not hit me so hard

    I don’t blame you

    it’s just a character flaw

    of mine

    something I never saw coming

    I wish I was Roy

    I wish I was still your hero

    I wish I was the knight in shining armor

    on the white horse

    riding to your rescue

    like a scene from some silent movie

    I wish I was the cool guy

    with the lopsided grin

    that turned your heart to mush

    I wish I was your first kiss

    I wish I was your first crush

    I wish I was the first person

    that you ever missed

    I wish I was Roy Rogers

    and you were Dale Evans

    riding off into the sunset

    and we rode side by side as the evening sun sank slowly into the Western Sky

    and the Sons of the Pioneers sang ‘hear them tumbling tumble weeds’

    softly in the background

    and Trigger turned around

    to gently nuzzle Buttermilk

    and we rode so close together

    our knees rubbed

    　Now if this story hasn’t yet brought a tear to your eye, did you know Festus was a Son’s of the Pioneers? Did you know Festus signed a contract to sing with the Tommy Dorsey Band to replace Frank Sinatra..Well you do know...The passionate enormity so far kind of overwhelming ..isn’t it? And you just know that Marshall Dillion and Miss Kitty were screwing around big time.....

    Now back to the wide screen and Roy and Dale

    in the audience a bunch of kids at the Saturday Matinee

    the boys with a small tear in their eye but not letting each other see

    as they ride their bikes away

    to the sound of ‘Hear Them Tumbling Tumbleweeds Tumbling Down’ echoing in their

    devious juvenile minds

    riding their bikes home

    like they were mounted on gallant steeds

    riding flat out

    the good guys in the white hats

    looking for the bad guys to fight it out

    wondering what Dale Evans might look like

    naked

    friends are hard to find

    heroes often fail

    still I’d give all of Texas and half the Moon

    just to hear the phone ring

    and your voice say

    ‘Hey Man, you still cool?’

    "Charming, poignant, sickly witty..a times near the abyss of abysmal melancholy but reigning it in just at the point of falling into that overly melodramatic chasm".. True West Magazine

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    Teardrops commented on I wish I was Roy

    02-12-2011

    I was a kit caron fan and Watt fan loved to have the gun fights even girls play cowboies . Great write Marie
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