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Thread #65815 Message #1427038
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
04-Mar-05 - 09:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Bucking Bronco / My Love Is a Rider
Subject: Lyr Add: THE COWBOY'S HAT / THE BUCKING BRONCO
No, dang it! But here are a couple collected by J. Frank Dobie.
Lyr. Add: The Cowboy's Hat A (or The Bucking Bronco)
My love is a vaquero, He rides on the Platte, Has a sunburnt mustache And a broad-brimmed hat.
He will treat you so clever With honest respect, That you never will regret Meeting his broad-brimmed hat.
The last time I saw him It was early in spring; He was riding a bronco, A high-headed thing.
Now all you gay ladies, Wherever you are at, Beware of the cowboy With the broad-brimmed hat.
Version of Charlie Johnson, in "More Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk," J. Frank Dobie, 1928, pp. 170-171 with music, Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society, Number VII, Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd.
Lyr. Add: The Cowboy's Hat B (or The Bucking Bronco B)
Beware, all fair maidens Who live on the Platte, Beware of the cowboy Who wears the white hat.
He will toss you a kiss, Then away he will go, Recrossing the plains On his bucking bronco.
He has a sweetheart in Texas, Depend upon that, Who worked the bright star* For the cowboy's big hat.
She awaits his coming All anxious to know Just how he has dared With his bucking bronco.
He holds off the marshall While having his fun. If crowded too closely He swaps ends with his gun.
Swinging into his saddle, Away he will go While hanging his spurs Into his bucking bronco.
The cowboy is generous, His courage oft tried; A path seeming dangerous He surely will ride.
But he squanders his money Wherever he may go, While he shoots up a town On his bucking bronco.
The bronco's his treasure In which he takes pride. That range has no limit O'er which he will ride.
Most honest and truthful, To friend or to foe, Bold knight of the plains On his bucking bronco.
* An embroidered star often ornamented hat, boots, gauntlets, saddle, and other accoutrements of the "Lone Star" cowboys. Version by James Hatch, written while "trail driving in 1882;" San Antonio, TX. "More Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk," 1928, J. Frank Dobie, pp. 170-173, loc. cit. above.