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Thread #50119   Message #2264575
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Feb-08 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: ADD/Origins: the Texas Ranger / Texas Rangers
Subject: RE: ADD/Origins: the Texas Ranger
Joe, the tune at Max Hunter is very much the tune used by Glenn Ohrlin. See "The Hell-Bound Train," no. 53, pp. 129-131.
If you don't have this book, I will email the score.

"The song is still in tradition in our section of the Arkansas Ozarks, being sung by Mrs. Ollie Gilbert, Raymond Sanders, myself, and others." Ohrlin.

Moreover, the words used by Tom Aley are very much the words used by Ohrlin (e. g. both have "My name is nothin' extry..." and it is sung the same way, with the high notes on 'extry'." Ohrlin and Aley are both Arkansawyers, and Ohrlin says many of the old cowboy songs are preserved there.