Speaking of Wyoming...

[stetto]

A song I wrote and recorded back in '89 or '90, when I lived there. It was performed in public for the first time last week at a local park...Good old-fashioned I-V-VII blues progression;

BUGTUSSLE

Well I woke up this mornin' again, and nothin' had changed
Seems to me that gettin' outta bed is a wager I don't wanna make
The hustle & bustle of downtown Bugtussle's like watchin' old reruns of Death Valley Days
Feels like I'm trapped here...
In a tumbleweed maze

Is there anyone in here with me or am I in this nightmare alone...
Had enough of the good life in Cheyenne Wyomin', Lord take me home

Yeah I live day to day pinin' for those days long ago
When there were things better to do
Than watch the wind blow
Tucson, Fargo, Tulsa Seattle---CLEVELAND OHIO
I don't care, jes' take me somewhere-Get me outta this rodeo

I don't wanna live for the rest of my life with drunk cowboys and buffalo...
Had enough of the good life in Cheyenne Wyomin', Lord take me home

Oooooooooooooooh I confess
That I didn't come for my health I was brought here under duress
Was the love for a woman--Got me into this mess--Don't give me no
I told you so's, 'cause I know that this sweet lady's really the best

If I'm in this town for the rest of my life you will read these words on my headstone...
Was a hell of a life here in Cheyenne Wyomin', Lord take me home

(Think of Ry Cooder and the soundtrack from Deliverance...)

;D ;D ;D ;D Thought I'd share ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Grug - American Neanderthal]

Heheh, Cheyenne..its an aquired taste.

[Grnbrt]

Pretty good there dude!!! Now Ry Cooder is great and I have a pristine album, (yes I said Album) from the Long riders that took me over a year to find!

[garygorf]

8-)I was raised in Wyoming. After the Army, I got smart and moved to California. After retirement, I got smart and moved back to Wyoming. I live in the "banana belt" in southwest Wyoming. Obviously, Cheyenne is on the wrong side of the divide, thus causing this unfair criticism of the state as a whole.

My answer to criticism of Wyoming is : Why would anyone tail-gate in Wyoming?"

Gary

[stetto]

Heh heh, hey Gary, go up on the ridge above the west end of Rock Springs after dark, look down on the city, find the high school parking lot, and tell me what the pattern of the street lights there spell...

...Unless they've been repositioned since I was last there in '88...

[garygorf]

I live right across from the high school. The parking lot doesn`t have many lights to see. The tennis courts might spell out "OIL" from the western perspective (?)

Incidently, that "rise" is White Mountain. OK, maybe it`s only a hill in other places, but we are a simple plains people, after all. We refer to Cheyenne itself as "Gateway to Nebraska." ;D

Gary

[stetto]

Hmmm, then things have changed. In 1988 a friend took me up on a "ridge" that overlooked Rock Springs north and west of the interstate (covered with dirt bike trails and 4x4 tracks) and showed me the scene from above--He pointed out what he said was the high school parking lot, and the street lights were aligned in a way to spell out a popular expletive, way too easy to notice amongst the more grid-like patterns of the rest of town. I was further informed that Rock Springs was (at least at that time) a haven for retired and semi-retired mob alumni, and that the lights in question were installed that way by a disgruntled contractor for being shorted on his bill but having no recourse, considering the clientele...a claim I remember responding to with "Wow, cool".

I saw the lights in '88. They aren't there any more?

[garygorf]

Sorry Stetto,

I think that "ridge" is known around here as "the Bluffs".

White Mountain is a bit further away.

I`ll look tonight if the NICADs will allow lighting the tennis court. The parking lot really doesn`t have enough lights to spell out anything neat.

I`ll get back to you.

Gary

[garygorf]

Sorry stetto

I looked last night and the only lights that I saw were on black helicopters. My sister, a life long resident said that she had never heard about the light pattern, but that the mafia references were probably true. Note that the retired mafia types did not move here, they lived here and helped build this town to what it is now.

Gary

[jetmex]

Isn't Wyoming like, REALLY far west Texas? ;D ;D

[garygorf]

I would say Wyoming is more like Arizona, except that we couldn`t afford to plant all the cactus plants that they did. Wyoming only has 23 counties and Texas has 350+. I drove from sounthern California through west Texas to Dallas. Longest three days I ever spent driving
in one state!

Gary

[Wayne]

Gosh, here I thought Hawk Springs was the gateway to Nebraska.....

to tell the truth, the corn looked the same on both sides of the state line

[Grug - American Neanderthal]

Heheh, yeah but when you pop the Corn from the Nebraska side it comes out NU cornhusker red.