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Wild Summer

from Gleaner's Joy by Forrest VanTuyl

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Bucolic remembrances of a pastoral childhood.

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The wild summer starts at harvest with the windrows fatter than a winter fire
Scratchin’ out a livin’ since you were just eleven and they paid ya seven dollars an hour
Copenhagen & Kosher Dill
Sisal Twine & Canadian Pills
The wild summer starts at harvest with the windrows fatter than a winter fire

The river hasn’t risen since the middle of December but that don’t mean we’re dry
Cuttin’ up the calendar for cuttin’ weather, whether it’ll rain or not the 4th of July
an old New Holland with the shearbolt sheared,
too old to sleep too young to drink beer
The wild summer starts at harvest with the windrows fatter than a winter fire

My brother’ll be bothered if I don’t mention a few more things so sit tight
He used to stack ‘em so high you couldn’t ride under the trestle where our dog got hit by a train and didn’t die
Ol’ Swede Olson was the best to work for
he drove a Cadillac and burned up the dance floor
The wild summer starts at harvest with the windrows fatter than a winter fire

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from Gleaner's Joy, released March 5, 2021

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Forrest VanTuyl Goldendale, Washington

Forrest VanTuyl is a Western songwriter, poet, and working cowboy based in the Inland Northwest. His work has been featured in the New York Times, at The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and he has written music for the US Forest Service.

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