Posted on 12/03/2001 1:46:05 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
You forgot washboards fer whackin' and moonshine jugs fer blowin' in...we're an eclectic band, for the longest time, it was just a bunch of dudes with guitars and me on my harp...now that we've got keyboards and drums, sky's the limit!!
FReegards...MUD
"A Soldier's Christmas"
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
my daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree, I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep
in perfect contentment, or so it would seem.
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eye when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
and I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts,
to the window that danced with a warm fire's light
then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night"
"Its my duty to stand at the front of the line,
that separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"
then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red white and blue... an American flag.
"I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home,
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat,
I can carry the weight of killing another
or lay down my life with my sisters and brothers
who stand at the front against any and all,
to insure for all time that this flag will not fall."
"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone.
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
to know you remember we fought and we bled
is payment enough, and with that we will trust.
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.
Michael Marks
December 7th, 2000
marksman@patriot.net"
FReegards...MUD
LOL,LGE
Good to see you back...hope everything's going well...MUD
My life's been strange since I began FReepin' Slick...
'Cuz I sing the Hard Line..."Throw Slick Willie in the Clink!!"
But I'll keep on FReepin' like Good Patriots do...
Bubba, I got my Band together...gonna ROCK all over you!!
Bite ME, Slick...you Bully!!
Prison's Right where you belong...
Ain't foolin' 'round, boy...Yer Evil Reign is Done!!
We'll make the Sheeple know yer Chi-Com SCUM!!
Bite ME, Slick...you Bully!!!
Scair't ClintonButtBoys done hacked my 'puter down...
But we'll have Ol' Slick on his knees...gonna force Slick outta town!!
Folks, Slick's leavin' this Game one step ahead of MUD...
And you WILL see Slick in CHAINS...Sic Semper Tyrannis!!!
Re-Impeach Slick Willie!!
Prison's right where Slick belongs!!!
Must cast Bill down...see Equal Justice is DONE!!!
Nation SHALL rise up...DETHRONE CLINTON!!!
Re-Impeach...then Convict Slick Willie!!
You shouldda RESIGNED, Billy...
(Guitar Jammin')
Been on Slick's butt since back in Ninety-Three...
Feds told me to stop...but I am, therefore I FReep!!
Now MUD's got a Band, we're gettin' better every day...
Tell all Meek Republicans..."Betta got outta our way!!"
Bite ME, Slick...you Bully!!!
Hell is right where you belong!!
You've met yer match, boy, you TREASONOUS SCUM...
Ain't gonna see no more damage done!!
Re-Impeach...then Convict Slick Willie!!!
(Guitar Jammin' to fade)
Mudboy Slim
RE-IMPEACH. CONVICT. DETHRONE.
DISBAR. DE-PENSION.
INDICT. CONVICT. IMPRISON. DISCARD KEY.
FReegards...MUD
1 Posted on 08/18/2000 08:42:40 PDT by Mudboy Slim (Justice@in't.NEGOTIABLE!!!)
SlixMUDZb!+c#...heh heh heh!!
Hmmmmmm...worth discussing, IMHO.
FReegards...MUD
FReegards...MUD
You'll have mail in a few minutes.
LGE
Three Cheers for Dan Burton !!!!!! ONE of the few NOT afraid to speak up .......and for all of you and me too that will NOT let Clinton keep getting away with his TREASON!!!!!!!
I saw old DNC Chairman Terrance on Fox last night.... he makes me sick !!!!!!!
Ain't that where Archie Manning's youngest is going? And where's all this money comin' from? I thought Mississippi was all dirt-poor!!
Yes, Eli is the QB for the Rebels. My son just graduated from Ole Miss; so that is why Mississippi has gotten wealthier. Transfer of payments from Virginia, so to speak. You will understand when your young'uns head off to college.
And why is Clemson at 6-5 in a Bowl and Ole Miss at 7-4 is NOT?? Proves SEC is so much stronger than other conferences and must suffer by having some of their teams sit out the Bowl Season.
But look out for Eli and the Rebs the next two years!
"...on the 27th, Free Republic will be down..."
AAAAIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Oh well...I guess it's true about "Whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger."
LOL and FReegards...MUD
Hope all is well...MUD
Yep...Burton, Barr, and a few others will lead the Congressional Contingent fer the Jihad fer Justice '02!! I seriously predict that November '02 will be all about Liberty, Justice, and the American Way...in other words, Dubyuh/Rush and the Forces of Good versus Slick Willie/T-Mac and the Forces of Evil!! And the Good Guys Shall Win in a ROUT!! (MUD and the Centaurs will provide the Sound Track...heh heh heh!!)
"...and for all of you and me too that will NOT let Clinton keep getting away with his TREASON!!!!!!!"
While you deserve the self-plaudits, mi hermana, we haven't accomplished our goal until Slick's met his Cell-Butty, Dwight.
"I saw old DNC Chairman Terrance on Fox last night.... he makes me sick !!!!"
Me, too...but I'm sure glad the Lib'ral DemonRATS are soooo STOOOOOPID that they keep him in Power...T-Mac shall be OUR PosterBoy fer ClintonCorruption in 2002!! He shall come to LOATHE US the way the EX-Traitor-in-Chief LOATHES the Military!!
FReegards...MUD
It's all politics...reckon Bill Clinton's to blame!!
"Proves SEC is so much stronger than other conferences and must suffer by having some of their teams sit out the Bowl Season."
SHEEESH...you SEC guys are always tootin' yer own horns...LOL!!
"But look out for Eli and the Rebs the next two years!"
The Road to the National Title goes through Charlottesville, where Al Groh will have the Hoos ranked #1 by 2004...SITYS!!!
FReegards...MUD
So Sayeth the PrescientOne...MUD
"Joy To the World"
Joy to the world! The Left is Dead!!
Left just don't know it yet!!
Let all good folks aid in the Lib'rals' Doom...
Help Heaven and nature sing.
Joy to the earth! the Saviour reigns:
Let men their songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Networks infest our Minds:
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far out, Left's Curse is found.
Right rules the earth with Truth and Grace,
And makes all Nations prove...
The Glories of his Righteousness
And wonders of Right's Love.
Work in progress...MUD
...Merry Xmas to you too, kiddo. :^)
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