Boots And Calico
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Sometimes you resist something you don’t think you’ll like,
And when you give in, you wish you’d started earlier in life.
This Poem reminisces of my resistance to square dancing
And giving in and learning it really felt more like prancing.
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Boots and Calico
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Along about 1973, my wife Pam had been working on me
To take Square Dance lessons, and she said they were free.
There was a nice club in Borger called Boots And Calico,
Where her brother Buffalo Bob and his wife Brenda did go.
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I told her I thought that kind of dancing was just not for me,
She cut me off, so I thought I must go or in the dog house be.
So she drug me along to the lessons complaining all the way,
And I loved the music and calls and I was hooked and did stay.
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We graduated from lessons the very best in the large class,
And joined Boots And Calico club and danced with the mass.
We made mistakes at first and broke down a few squares,
But in a few months we were as good as the very best there.
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In six months, we were seasoned pros and traveled all around,
Dancing with other clubs in many other Texas Panhandle towns.
We met and danced with a girl and her beau I called “Ida Red”,
That all of the old lady gossiping dancers really did just dread.
Ida Red could make em jiggle….
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She danced fast and when she kicked, you could see the sky,
And she always wore red panties pulled tight on her thighs.
She could make both of them jiggle like a big bowl of peach jello,
So the guys tried to get in her square as we loved her do-si-do.
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They taught us a circle dance called “Jesse Polka” fiddle tune.
While kicking our feet so high,they almost did hit the moon.
This was one of those feel good dances that we grew to love,
That gave you a heavenly feeling like you were floating above.
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One club that we visited had a caller that lived on ranch land.
He organized a square dance in his big red barn with a band.
He catered in Barbecue and and called a square dance there.
That was the best square dance of our square dance careers.
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We traveled to Red River, New Mexico and Fun Valley, Colorado.
With members from our club in Borger that we came to know.
Yelling loud and dancing in the cool mountain air dance halls,
And just having the time of our life while following the dance calls.
Pam and I dancing on the floor at Fun Valley just off of Wolf Creek Pass.
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At Fun Valley, we danced with Charlene and Rick, my cousin,
This resort on the Wolf Creek Pass had a great hall to dance in.
With National grade callers that let those fast calls really rip.
We had a great time with friends and relatives on this fun trip.
Charlene and Rick at the square dance hall at Fun Valley near South Fork.
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In 1978, our and family transferred to Oklahoma City,
We got out of square dancing for a while, oh what big pity,
But in 1983, we found it again and joined Jane Phillips Club,
When we moved into Bartlesville and fixed our big flub.
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By Bill
Thanks for reading Boots And Calico again,
Bill