Someday Soon Ian Tyson 1963 (as recorded by Ian and Sylvia on Northern Journey 1964)

My parents cannot stand him ‘cause he works the rodeo
They say “he’s not your kind, he’ll leave you cryin’ ”
But if he asks I’ll follow him down the toughest row to hoe
Someday soon, goin’ with him, someday soon

Judy Collins said, "One night in California Steve Stills and I were singing it in the car on the way in from Topanga Canyon. I said: "That's beautiful." He said: "Why don't you record it?" So we did."
She recorded it at Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles in 1968 for the album Who knows where the time goes. She sang these words on the Smothers Brothers show in 1969.

My parents they can't stand him ‘cause he works the rodeo
My father says that he will leave you cryin’ ”
I would follow him down the toughest road I know
Someday soon, goin’ with him, someday soon

The song is based on Ian Tyson's romance with Sylvia Fricker from Chatham, Ontario. My Uncle Peter and Mr Fricker, Sylvia's father, went to a bar every Friday night. Uncle Peter said that all he talked about was the 'pseudo-cowboy" who had run off with his daughter. Judy Collins sang it beautifully last night at the RNCM in Manchester, complete with pedal steel guitar. She said: "I want you to know that you're looking at the American Idol of 1956!"