Wanted Alive!

Wanted Alive: New Teacher for Cowboy School

Are you a sharpshooter
and quick on the drawer?
Can you jangle your spurs
and lay down the law?

Yep!

If you enter the classroom
and the cowboys are rowdy
can you obtain silence
just by hollerin' 'Howdy!'?

Yep!

Are you as at home in the saddle
as you are holding chalk?
Do you like eating baked beans?
Can you drawl when you talk?

Yep!

Can you herd cattle
and control a lasso?
If you answer Yep!
this job could be for you.

Yep!

But you gotta look good
in a ten-gallon hat
if you want to work here.
Any problem with that?

Nope!

Then mosey on down
for a tough interview
and show the posse
what you can do.

But one piece of advice
I'll give to you, son,
if they start shootin'
you better run.

It'll mean they don't like you.
They don't want you around.
You ain't been successful
so get outa town!


Poem copyright Bernard Young
From Wanted Alive by Bernard Young, Hands up Press, 2004

Saw this cowpoke in a classroom in Seamer & Irton School where I've been performing and giving workshops. Great stuff written by the children. One of them featured an X Factor judge called Simon Growl.