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A campfire story about a ghostly cowpoke who haunts an abandoned ghost town, but all he does is misplace his spurs

Whistling Through the Prairie Winds

A cowboy learns to face the winds with grit and a song in his heart.

Beneath the moon in a ghost town’s hush,
Where tumbleweeds whisper and shadows rush,
A campfire flickers, tales rise and play,
Of a spectral cowpoke who’s lost his way.

Once a proud rider, swift as the breeze,
Now clanging spurs float upon the tease.
At sunset he moans, “Where have they gone?”
Those silver-bright trinkets, now lost at dawn.

Through dusty saloons where no voices dwell,
He searches for echoes, his heart in a swell.
With a laugh that echoes, a ghostly jest,
He stumbles on trails, never finds rest.

So heed this story as embers dance bright,
In the chill of the night and the waning light.
A cowboy may wander with spirit unfurled,
But its missing his spurs that haunts his old world.