The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34006   Message #456672
Posted By: BK
06-May-01 - 09:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Coyotes (Bob McDill)
Subject: unusual cowboy song
I know this ain't in the DB; at a cowboy poetry & song meeting last week-end a guy sang a song abt an ol' cowboy that just disappears, being out of synch w/the modern world.

the chorus has a part which loosely mimics the night sounds of the coyote, something vaguely like: oohyip, ooh-yip, ooh/odalooh-yip,oh-yipa-hoo/ooh-yip, ooh-yip, ooh/odalooh-yip,oh-yipa-hoo.

The rest of the chorus lists various things or people gone from the western scene: Long horns are gone, drovers are gone, comanchees are gone, Outlaws are gone/Geronimo is gone, Sam Bass is gone, the Lion is gone, the Red Wolf is gone....

If anybody knows the Name & Author of this song & where I might find the words, it's the 'Catters..

Thanx, BK