The Horse In My Life

TY HARDIN says:

“Whether he’s running a country

Or in a corral—

Behind each guy who’s made it

There’s always a gal.

Now my one, I’ll tell you

Has huge soulful eyes.

To gaze into them makes

My temperature rise.

I need her, I need her,

We can’t be divorced

And when we’re both old and gray

I’ll still love my horse.”

WAYDE PRESTON our hero

(Known as Christopher Colt)

Says his love for his horse

Once gave him a jolt.

“We were friends, good friends,

He And we’d talk man-to-man.

Sharing our troubles

As only two guys can.

Like a buddy, he was,

Nothing too good for him—See?

But it gave me a shock

To learn that he was she!”

PETER BROWN who’s gained renown

As Deputy John McKay—

Says that having a horse is nice

But sometimes it doesn’t pay.

“When I became an actor

The folks back home all said—

Your wife and you’ll have a mansion

And sleep in a satin bed.

But though now I’m seen from coast to coast,

Doing the best I’m able—

With a four-legged gal, hay for pay,

I’ve a house that’s really a stable.”

WILL HUTCHINS as Sugarfoot

In the show of the same name—

Thanks his horse, thanks her lots

For adding to his fame.

“You guys who knock at horses—

Here’s one thing to know—

If you didn’t have your handsome steed

How’d you get where you go?

Look at me and the horse I ride—

So close—we’re almost gruesome.

Even Sara Hamilton’s linked us

As Hollywood’s ‘steadiest’ twosome.”

JIM GARNER and JACK KELLY,

Bret and Bart Maverick—

Find out from their nags

That they always get ‘a kick.’

“How they learned, we’ll never know,

But our horses read ’n’ write.

Sometimes we hear them typing

In the middle of the night.

They’re writing our scripts,

And they’re very, very smart.

Because they’ve cut out our best lines—

Taking the best part.”

JOHN RUSSELL, that marshal of Lawman fame

Loves his horse, so they say,

He gives her the best that she could want

And sees her every day.

He loves his horse, he really does,

Even her constant neighs,

But there’s one thing he’s worried about—

His contract—and here’s what it says:

She can use his dressing room any time

And also the hot water,

So now she’s wearing his silk shirts

Though she definitely hadn’t oughta!

Ty Hardin, Wayde Preston, Will Hutchins, Jim Garner, Jack Kelly, Peter Brown and John Russell group around and sing:

“Whether he’s running a country

Or in a corral—

Behind each guy who’s made it

There’s always a gal!”

 

It is a quote. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE MAY 1959