a correction:

On my record of the song, I sang, "I'll own his back side and shoulder before I get older"

I did that because I remembered the words Frank Hamilton had sung incorrectly. When my LP came out, I heard VERY QUICKLY from my friend, Faith Petric, in San Francisco telling me in no uncertain terms that I had got it very wrong!

The correct words are, I think:

I'll own the hip side and shoulder before I get older,
Zapaterro, don't you tan my hide.

As I recall, "The hip side and shoulder" was either a different ranch's name, or the cowboy had killed one of the "sleeper calves" (strays) and was intent on taking "the hip side and shoulder" for himself.

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