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Lighter	Lyr Add: Bucking Bronco / My Love Is a Rider (30)	RE: Lyr Add: Bucking Bronco / My Love Is a Rider	26 Jun 25
Hermes Nye sings six well-known, harmless stanzas on "Texas Folk Songs" (Folkways FA 2128), 1955. He daydreams: “Belle Starr, the female desperado from the Indian Territory, composed this song. Wrote it in .44 slugs on the post oaks, from the back of a pinto pony at full speed, just three lengths ahead of the posse. Always one for a lark, was Belle. I can see her now.” But in the “Introduction” to Nye’s liner notes, J. Frank Dobie says only: “All of the best folk songs have [realism], in contrast to the prettified sentimentality of ‘My Love is a Rider,’ which was probably composed in a drugstore.” YouTube features several performances of polite versions for various tastes. One mini-bio of Belle Starr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RJrnyB8jnQ

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