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Ode to Corky Orms by Hardy Parkerson on May 21, 2005. © All rights reserved [link removed]

Today we laid old Corky Orms to rest. Of all the friends I've had he was the best. And what a tribute to this old Roughneck, When thousands came to pay their last respect!

On this early day in May what lovely weather, With friends and loved ones gathered there together! In old White Oak, where he'd lived his entire life With his father, mother, brothers, sister, lovely children and a wife.

And, like Will Rogers, even from the days he was a tyke, He never met a man he didn't like. And at the bucolic graveyard on the hill Our hearts with anguish, our eyes with tears, did fill.

Yes, we said good bye to Corky, our dear friend, Yet knowing that in Heav'n we'd meet again.
Hardy Parkerson Ode to Corky Orms

Today we laid old Corky Orms to rest. Of all the friends I've had he was the best. And what a tribute to this old Roughneck, When thousands came to pay their last respect!

On this early day in May what lovely weather, With friends and loved ones gathered there together! In old White Oak, where he'd lived his ent...See More
Feb 4, 2010
TEX Good poem, I knew Corky. Quite a good athlete he was. I played football with him. TEX

On 2/04/10, Hardy Parkerson wrote: > Ode to Corky Orms > > Today we laid old Corky Orms to rest. > Of all the friends I've had he was the best. > And what a tribute to this old Roughneck, > When thousands came to pay their last respect! ...See More
Apr 13, 2010


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