{"id":2804,"date":"2013-03-27T12:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2020-01-14T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:24:54","slug":"way-out-west-singing-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/way-out-west-singing-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Way Out West- Singing Cowboy&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a singing cowboy anywhere other than in Nashville or a Hollywood movie seems at least a little farfetched, but in fact real cowboys did sing-maybe to calm down skittish cattle, but more likely to alleviate their boredom in the saddle and to romanticize their lives.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Songs of the Cowboys, <\/em>by Jack Thorp, a former New Yorkers who became a wrangler at the bar<br \/>\nW. Ranch in New Mexico, was published in 1908 after Thorp spent more than ten years <a href=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2013\/03\/color-headshot1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2809\" title=\"color-headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2013\/03\/color-headshot1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2013\/03\/color-headshot1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2013\/03\/color-headshot1-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>gathering verses from cowboys he met along the trail.\u00a0 Thorp later observed, \u201cI never did hear a cowboy with a real good voice; if he had one to start with, he always lost it bawling at the cattle, or sleeping out in the open, or tellin\u2019 the judge he didn\u2019t steal that horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Modern singing cowboys continue to honor and embellish the cowboy ideal.\u00a0 Such prodigious <a href=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2013\/03\/ian_tyson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2805\" title=\"ian_tyson\" src=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2013\/03\/ian_tyson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>talents as Ian Tyson, Red Steagall, Fletcher Jowers, Sons of the San Joaquin, and Michael Martin Murphey are known to their fans as cowboy-western singers, NOT country-western; their recording of classic range songs as well as original odes to frontier life are treasured by buckaroos from coast to coast, and their talents are lovingly documented three times a year in the vastly entertaining periodical <em>Song of the West<\/em> (see page 385).\u00a0 In the last few years Michael Martin Murphey has gone beyond the microphone to produce \u201cWest Fests\u201d- big festivals of cowboy-themed art, dance, fun, and continuous music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thorp said that he heard a wrangler named Spence sing this song at a round-up at Seven Lakes, New Mexico:<a href=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2013\/03\/images1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2806\" title=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2013\/03\/images1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE COWBOY\u2019S LIFE<\/p>\n<p><em>The bawl of a steer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To a cowboy\u2019s ear<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Is music of sweetest strain;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the yelping notes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of the gray coyotes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To him are a glad refrain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And his jolly songs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Speed him along<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As he thinks of the little gal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With golden hair<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Who is waiting there<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the bars of the home corral.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For a kingly crown<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the noisy town<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His saddle he wouldn\u2019t change;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No life so free<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the life we see<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Way out on the Yaso range.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His eyes are bright<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And his heart as light<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the smoke of his cigarette;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There\u2019s never a care<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For his soul to bear,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No trouble to make him fret.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The rapid beat<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of his bronco\u2019s feet,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On the sod as he speeds along<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Keeps living time<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To the ringing rhyme<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of his rollicking cowboy\u2019s song.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hike it, cowboys,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For the range away<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On the back of a bronc of steel,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With a careless flirt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of the raw-hide quirt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the dig of a roweled heel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The winds may blow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the thunder growl<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or the breeze may safely moan;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A cowboy\u2019s life<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Is a royal life,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His saddle his kingly throne.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Saddle up, boys,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For the work is play<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When love\u2019s in the cowboy\u2019s eyes,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When his heart is light<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the clouds of white<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That swim in the summer skies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This classic cowboy ballad, about a trail dive up into the High Plains, was described by Arlene Hodapp, in an article about \u201cSongs of the Cowboys\u201d (<em>Yippy Yi Yea<\/em> magazine, Summer 1992) as having a rhythm like the gait of a loping horse.\u00a0 Ms. Hodapp suggested that it was probably composed by someone sitting in the saddle.<\/p>\n<p>GIT ALONG, LITTLE DOGIES<\/p>\n<p><em>As I was a-walking one morning for pleasure,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I spied a cowpuncher a-riding along,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His hat was throwed back and his spurs was a-jingling,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As he approach\u2019d me was a-singing this song.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhoopee ti-yi-yo, git along, little dogies,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For you know Wyoming will be your new home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEarly in the spring we round up the dogies,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mark and brand them and bob off their tails;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Round up your horses, load up the chick-wagon,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then throw the dogies upon the North trail.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a singing cowboy anywhere other than in Nashville or a Hollywood movie seems at least a little farfetched, but in fact real cowboys did sing-maybe to calm 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