Mudcat Café message #1679281

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Thread #89138 Message #1679281
Posted By: Abby Sale
26-Feb-06 - 09:49 AM
Thread Name: Happy! – Feb 26 (William F Cody)
Subject: Happy! – Feb 26 (William F Cody)

Happy Birthday!

Buffalo Bill Cody

was born 2/26/1846
(d.1917)


          cho: And we'll shoot the buffalo, we'll shoot the buffalo,
               We'll rally round the canebrake and shoot the buffalo!
  
                  "Shoot the Buffalo" (often "Hunt the Buffalo,") a children's play-party song.
                  See American Ballads and Folk Songs, Lomax.  
  
  ALSO: 
          Come all you jolly skinners and listen to my song,
          There are not many verses, it will not detain you long;
          It's concerning some young fellows who did agree to go
          And spend one summer pleasantly on the range of the buffalo.
  
     But a few verses on down...
          Our meat it was buffalo rump and iron wedge bread
          And all we had to sleep on was a buffalo robe for a bed.
          The fleas and gray-backs worked on us, O boys, it was not slow
          I tell you there's no worse hell on earth than the the range of the buffalo.
  
                  "The Buffalo Skinners," Cowboy Songs, Lomax; 1938 (revised edition)