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This event has been postponed for 2002..
Kinda feels like an empty saddle...
(and any cowboy been around a bit knows what that means)
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Ever
heard of "The Last Cowboy Song"?
by William
Bruce and Ronald Peterson
Performed
by The Highwaymen,
Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson
Do any of these lyrics strike a chord?
This is the last cowboy song:
The end of a hundred year waltz.
The voices sound sad as they're singin' along.
Another piece of America's lost.
He rides the feed lots, clerks in the markets,
On weekends sellin' tobacco and beer.
And his dreams of tomorrow, surrounded by fences,
But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here.
He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark,
And eyeball to eyeball, old Wyatt backed down.
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas.
And rode with the 7th when Custer went down.
This is the last cowboy song:
The end of a hundred year waltz.
The voices sound sad as they're singin' along.
Another piece of America's lost.
Remmington showed us how he looked on canvas,
And Louis Lamour has told us his tale.
Me and Johnny and Waylon and Kris sing about him,
And wish to God we could have ridden his trail.
The old Chisolm trail is covered in concrete now,
They truck it to market in fifty foot rigs.
They roll by his markings and don't even notice,
Like living and dying was all he ever did.
This is the last cowboy song:
The end of a hundred year waltz.
The voices sound sad as they're singin' along.
Another piece of America's lost.
(© Sony/ATV Songs LLC [Tree Publishing].)
From "Highwaymen", © 1985, Columbia Records.
The Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County is sorry to announce that Cowboy Poetry for 2002 has been postponed as a result of some issues with a few of the neighbors of the Mounted Patrol grounds.
As many of you can appreciate, booking the talent for a show of this caliber is often done several months (if not a year) in advance. A few of the neighbors are challenging how the facilities of the Mounted Patrol are being used on an ongoing basis and, in the spirit of being a good neighbor, we are trying to mitigate their concerns and figure out how we can all peacefully coexist.
If you'd like to register your comments with the Mounted Patrol, click here.
Please feel free to pass on your comments to the Woodside Town Council at the following addresses:
Town of Woodside address:
Mailing address is PO BOX 620005, Woodside, CA 94062
Street address is 2955 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA 94062
Phone (650) 851-9360
Email address:
Susan George, Town Manager - sgeorge@woodsidetown.org
Hope Sullivan, Planning Director - hsullivan@woodsidetown.org
Janet Koelsch, Town Clerk - jkoelsch@woodsidetown.org
Kent Dewell, Town Engineer - kdewell@woodsidetown.org
Letters can be directed to both Town Council Members and Planning Commissioners.
2002 Council Members
Dave Tanner, Deborah Gordon, Suean Boynton, Joe Putnam,
Paul Goeld, Carroll Ann Hodges, Pete Sinclair
Planning Commission
K.C. Kelley, Stella Weng Kister, Kathleen Scutchfield, Steve Patrick,
Tom Livermore, Sara Jorgensen, Diane Elder
Some comments received by the Mounted Patrol...
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Click here to see a note from Eileen
The following performers
will not be appearing at the
8th Annual Cowboy Poetry Night 2002
at the Mounted Patrol Grounds...
Sourdough Slim
Belinda Gail
Ernie Sites
Dave Stamey
Jim Boné
Buckaroo Bob Weber
From Eileen, dated March 30, 2002:
Ed,
Thank you for the answer to my query. Needless to say I'm truly disappointed that the poetry and music event will not take place this year. I am already on a mailing list for the cowboy poetry event and get a flyer each year. I have been coming for the past 4 years....this would have been the 5th......and each time the program was better than the last.
I understand your group wanting to work with the neighbors to find a peaceful solution to their perception of a problem. But there is a part of me that starts feeling a bit ruffled when I hear of things like this happening. It's my feeling that your arena and event area has been around for a long time - probably longer than many of the "neighbors" who now populate the area. As you mentioned there are a few who do not appreciate what goes on at the arena and so have decided to try to stop the activities. I find it so sad. There are so few opportunities for us urban dwellers to briefly escape the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy an evening of wonderful music and cowboy poetry in such a lovely atmosphere. I think if they would attend the event themselves they would see what a treasure it really is!
Being raised a country girl many years ago makes me appreciate this type of entertainment so much. The longer I live in the city, the more often I find myself craving a touch of the outdoors, the country life and the enchantment of the western culture that is so much a part of my upbringing. There are so few venues here in the Bay Area that bring in this type of entertainment, and I was ecstatic to discover this event some years ago (I learned of it because I have followed Sourdough Slim's career for a number of years).
I would be more than happy to write to the Woodside Town Council, expressing my sentiments about this matter. I hope that you and your organization will be able to come to some kind of agreement with the neighborhood that will allow events such as the poetry and music program to continue. I often wonder if these folks ever stop and think what loss it would be to not be able to have this wonderful event. It is such a beautiful reminder of our early years here in the West, and I feel that it is as much of a "cultural" event as the opera, the symphony or the ballet........sometimes even more - this is truly part of our American heritage.
Eileen
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