Cattle March
The Sounds of Driving Cattle
The cattleman call “c’me’er c’me’er”
Voice ringing out for all to hear
Like Field commander assembling the band
The horse hooves like snare drums take up the strand
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The cattle out grazing look up to the call
The know they must travel each winter and fall
At first- a resistance! “Why leave this fair field?”
But soon to the snare drums a few finally yield
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With steady hooves beating across the terrain
The Bovinic brasses begin their refrain
With mellophone murmurs of ambling cattle
And baritone bellows of bulls full of prattle
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The calves all the while go running around
Their high little voices like piccolos sound
Running and wand’ring no cares in the world
Reminded by snare hooves to stay with the herd
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Long down the trail the ensemble curls
Kicking up dust in golden-brown swirls
Like marching flag wavers with color-guard pride
Marching and murmuring without breaking stride.
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A long day of the travel the sun begins setting
The snare drums of horse hooves finally letting
The weary ensemble know they had arrived
To the fresh greener pasture to which they had strived
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The cattle now grazing, the horses well tended
The cattleman watches them quiet contented
He listens a moment then raises a hand
Like field commander dismissing the band
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Judah LoVato
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