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Thread #67126   Message #1119841
Posted By: Lighter
20-Feb-04 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Old Chisholm Trail
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL
And furthermore -

Buffalo Bill is just as wildly out of place in Lead Belly's "When I Was a Cowboy" (alias "Leadbelly's [sic] Chisholm Trail" in the Lomaxes' "Cowboy Songs" of 1938). Jesse James also makes an appearance in the printed text.

The printed version also contains the verse,

    Come all you cowboys, don't you want to go...
    To see the rangers on the range of the buffalo?

But when Lead Belly recorded the song, he clearly sang,

    To see the *Lone Ranger* on the range of the buffalo.

Another example of L & L's editorial license.