My 5 year old granddaughter cracks up at the song. She saw it on a version of "Little House on the Prairie" where father played it on his fiddle in the evening and the girls danced to it. Actually it was the dance that made her laugh. So I was interested to know what "buffalo gals" were. I like the less bawdy version and think that probably the Native American name for the black soldiers and by inference their "gals" is most accurate. It was enlightening to read the threads. Thanks