Schoolyard Seeds Cowboys And Indians Poem by Terence George Craddock

in those far away days of play
in that time of long hot summer days
in the school yard released from classrooms
in morning break perhaps at lunchtime
in early elementary school primary school

sometimes at break we played Cowboys and Indians

there were always a half dozen 10 or 12 Cowboys
there were outnumbered only ever 2 or 3 Indians
there on the ground the grass in rough and tumble
there in ambush play attacks by Cowboys and Indians
there could only ever be one outnumbered outcome

Indians would loose no matter how hard we fought