show #3816
Houston, Texas,
It starts like this
I got off work at 3:00pm on Thursday. I drove home got some money
and at 3:30pm I headed for Houston. I got to the theater at about
7:30pm and went to the ticket booth to buy a ticket. I told them as
close to the front as I can get. Well, second row right in front of the
stage at the right corner of the stage It was GREAT. I tried to get to
go back stage to see the RITS but a couple of them were napping
so they wouldn't let me. However one of the security guards took a
copy of my newest poem book back to the RITS I gave each of them
one and I also gave Joey one of my Never-Ending cowboy poem books. I also had
the guard give the RITS a copy of the article in the
paper with my and Roy Rogers on the front cover (Roy is a cardboard
life size cutout I have in my Cowboy room).
The show started with and opening act I man named Don Wallser
He sang some real good songs and some really funny ones to
1. The John Deere tractor song 2. The Yodel Polka 3. Cowpoke
4. A fool such as I 5. Hill Country Waltz 6. Truck Driving Man
7. Long Black Vale 8. Way Out There 9. Please Help Me I'm Falling
10. Please Help Me I'm Falling ( the Homer and Jethro version)
11. Chime Bells 12. RamŪn 13. Rolling Stone of Texas
Then it was time for the RIDERS IN THE SKY concert number #3816
1. Texas Plains 2. How the Yodel was Born 3. Wahoo
4. Tumbling Tumbleweed 5. Palindrome 6. Four Footed Friends
7. A song in Spanish (didn't get the name) 8. Sioux City Sue
9. The Phantom of the Chuckwagon 10. Hoop de do
11. Be Still Little Doggies 12. Rawhide 13. Bowling Bowling Bowling
14. Cowboy Campmeeting 15. Texas Blues 16. Silver Moon Waltz
17. One more ride 18. QUESTIONS (just a note) I had by far the best
question. I asked "What is the Cowboy way Briefs or Boxers" Ranger
Doug came back with "Now lets keep politics out of here tonight" and
Too Slim spoke up and said "Depends" I have asked the second
question so they continued to have others ask questions. A lady right
in front of me gave Too Slim a gift but no one got a bigger laugh then
my questioned did. However Ranger Doug gave the 8track to the lady
that gave Too Slim the gift and as I thought about it I came to the
conclusion Ranger Doug did it the Cowboy Way because she needed
that track a lot more then I did. 19. Cool Waters 20. Happy Accordion Fingers
21. Pacos Bill 22. Blue Shadows 23. Lights of Old Santa Fe
24. Don't Fence me In 25. Navajo Trail 26. Sons of the Western Soil
27. Happy Days Encore 28. Loony Tunes (then they have Don come
back on stage and sing the last songs with them they were
29. Cattle Call 30. You are My Sunshine
I had gotten Ranger Doug to sign my Cowboy Hat before the Show
because I had to leave right after the show because I had to be to
work at 7:00am the next morning so when the show ended I took off
for my car to go home and what to my surprise the battery was dead
you guessed it I had left my lights on. Well, what to do that was easy
I went right back to the lobby of the theater and had Too Slim, Woody
and Joey sign my hat and had Ranger Doug add the number of the
show. Then I went back to my car, got the jumper cables out of the
trunk put one end on the battery and the other end out in the street
and after about 10 minutes a man stopped and gave me a jump and
I was on my way home. I got home at 3:20am got to bed by 3:30 and
had to get up for work at 5:40am.And I did it was well worth it.
The End
Gary