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Thread #14900   Message #1650361
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Jan-06 - 03:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Desert Silver Blue? / Desert Silvery Blue
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Desert Silvery Blue (Badger Clark)
Full sheet music for "Roundup Lullaby," words by Badger Clark and music by Estelle Philleo, 1919, in the University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection. The cover is by Sheridan, Wyoming, artist Bill Gollings (d.), showing a night rider with shorthorns.
The complete poem is printed on the last page. The images print 8 x 10 size and are easy to copy and read. Songs in The Western Trails Collection are grouped alphabetically with an image of the cover, making this site the first to check when looking for western sheet music.

"The Cowboy Lullaby," an arrangement by R. H. Lyman for the Men's Glee Club of Pomona College, posted by Harpgirl in thread 55580, perhaps is responsible for the 'Desert Silvery Blue' parody(ies) sung in scout camps. I have not seen a publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art- Simon and Schuster, 'Songs of the Wild West,' in which either the original or the parody was printed (see Harpgirl post, thread 55580).

All of this has been posted in previous threads, but few seem to have the ability to search Mudcat.