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All who wear country hates ain’t cowboys

Here are a few examples:

-Country music artists; especially bluegrass pickers, most of whom wouldn’t know a cowboy from a hoe handle.

-About any kind of auctioneer (white hat).

-Motorcycle Riders: I read where a fellow riding class-country hardly could get the time of day when he stopped to talk to people. For some reason he bought him a country hat. Then people wanted to talk and visit- “sometimes it was hard to get away”, he said. The hat was magic.

-Truck Drivers: I remember sometime back a truck driver- cowboy-hat-man called himself a “cowboy.” He had C-O-W-B-O-Y painted in big letters on the panel above his truck windshield.

-Is there such thing as a hog-boy hat? Once when I was teaching, I had a U.K. Extension Specialist come down and inspect a farmer’s hog operation. You guess it. He wore a cowboy hat.

-Law enforcement people: a part of a Ranger’s regulation uniform, is a cowboy hat. So many sheriffs and their deputies wear the (white) hat- no black hats.

- Im guilty myself. I have two-summer and winter- white cowboy hats. I was properly attained when I played with a country and western band after I retire. I had the boots too. But my “legs aint bowed, and my cheeks ain’t tanned”.

-Would you believe a professional hangman- in a movie I once saw (a western), came to town to hang a criminal. Sure thing. He wore a large white cowboy hat. In this case, a black hat would have been ok

I know all the songs that the cowboys know- ‘bout the big corral where the Doogie go. “Learned them all on the radio- yippy Lee-O- kiee yeah…” (I’m an Old Cowhand.)

Kindest Regards…