Toughest Cowboy

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As boys, we were always trying to support our cowboy friends.
We loved to watch the shows on the big screen to the end.
Trying to figure out which one was the toughest of the lot,
Was a chore we loved and often argued as the bull we shot.

 

 

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Toughest Cowboy

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I grew up with lots of cowboys that wore big white hats pulled down.
I often wondered which one was the toughest cowboy in the town.
My young friends and I talked about this a lot in our summer days.
And often had arguments trying to support our cowboy hero ways.

 

 

 

At first I thought it might be Roy Rogers with his mate Dale Evans.
He outdrew the outlaws and shot the guns from their hands in seconds.
His trusty steed Trigger even helped with the bad guys sometimes,
Kicking the gun right out of their hand with a big old kick from behind.

 

 

 

But Roy just didn’t look like a hero to me as he was just a little skinny,
When he punched one of those big ugly bad guys he hit like a granny.
But they still fell to the ground out cold from that tiny little bitty punch.
Even though he  weighed 250 pounds and was the biggest of the bunch.

 

Roy was one of the early cowboys and was a bit small in stature and was a handsome dude, but just didn’t fit the tough guy role. Roy came in 5th sucking hind tit.

 

 

Tom Seleck made a pretty good cowboy star and a mean horse rider.
“Quiggly” Down Under was quite good and Tom was a country outsider.
He may have been the best dressed cowboy of all, and he looked cool.
I noticed a lot of the ladies, at his good looks, did very often drool.

 

 

 

I think Tom would win the best looking cowboy star of them all,
But he was fairly laid back and easy going before the bad guy falls.
But he was always the fine shot with a rifle and better with a pistol.
I classify him much more of a ladies man that a tough guy with gristle.

 

Tom Seleck is a good looking guy, but he came in forth in the toughest cowboy survey. 

 

 

 

Then there was Clint Eastwood with all the spaghetti westerns he made.
He talked real tough and could shoot that pistol and drop them dead.
The pistol echoed and sounded scary as he hit them right in the eye.
It seems he never missed with that colt 45 no matter how hard he tried.

 

 

 

These movies made Clint a little more than a real cowboy super star.
He was too perfect which made his action seem unreal by way too far.
So Clint was definitely not my idea of the toughest cowboy of them all.
But he did put on a pretty good show which made him still stand tall.

 

Clint was pretty tough and comes in third  just behind  John Wayne

 

 

John Wayne made hundreds of movies about cowboys that did fight.
He was big and rugged and when he hit someone, it just looked right.
He talked like a rough and tumble cowboy so I believed he was tough.
He fought like he was in a honky tonk fight in Borger, Texas, so rough.

 

 

 

So The Duke has my vote for a tough cowboy in todays survey.
I remember from “True Grit” when Duvall hollers and The Duke relays.
“Fill your hand you son of a bitch” and heads at them guns blazing.
He had his first Oscar Award for playing the role in his hand for raising.

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No doubt about it, John Wayne comes in second in Toughest Cowboy competition. Not bad for a one eyed fat man.

 

 

 

Sam Elliot was always a mean looking bad ass cowboy looking tough.
He had that growling gravelly voice that let everyone know he’s rough.
Sam always had that mean eyed look as he kind of scowled at you,
Right before he shot you and cut you with that giant Bowie knife too.

In the Sacketts movie, Sam was the toughest looking cowboy out there.
There is not a more rugged scary looking cowboy out there anywhere.
So Sam wins my survey for the very meanest toughest cowboy of all.
I just loved that tough guy look he portrays so well standing so tall.

 

No doubt about it, Sam Elliot wins the meanest, toughest looking cowboy contest hands down. Congratulations Sam.

 

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By Bill

 

 

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Thanks for reading Toughest Cowboy,
Bill