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Thread #23687   Message #265133
Posted By: kendall
26-Jul-00 - 02:49 PM
Thread Name: Oregon Trail/pioneer songs?
Subject: RE: Oregon Trail/pioneer songs?
How strict are you? I like The Goodnight-Loving Trail. Do you remember one called The covered wagon rolled right along?....I dont know all of it, just 2 verses..Someone else maybe?

..At playing poker pappy won his fame
Once he got an Indian Chief into the game
Pappy wound up with 4 deuces, and a squaw with 6 papooses
And the covered wagon rolled right along.

When we crossed the reservation of the Sioux
The Indians stood and watched us passing through
Not a redskin dared to trifle while old pappy held his rifle, and the covered wagon rolled right along.