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Old Paint: What's a hoolian? DigiTrad: GOODBYE, OLD PAINT I RIDE AN OLD PAINT Related threads: Lyr Add: Rebel Soldier (cf. Old Paint) (25) (origins) Origins: I Ride An Old Paint (100) I ride an old paint - houlighan? fiery & snuffy? (35) Hoolian??????? (44) old paint and goodbye old paint lyrics (3) Lyr Req: Goodbye Old Paint (6) Song Title please ?-I Ride an Old Paint (21) (origins) Help: houlihan? - Old Paint (77) Lyr Req: Riding Old Paint and Leading Old Ball (22) |
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Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: GUEST,Clint Date: 15 Feb 11 - 08:47 PM In the song the singer actually says, I ride an old paint and I lead an old dam. A dam is by defintion the mother of a domesicated animal, in this case it's another horse actually a mare. A hoolian is a way to throw a lasso's loop perpendicualar to the ground. This throw is used in catching horses as many horses can see an over-head loop coming at them and will duck out it. The hoolian forms a loop that they run into. |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: GUEST,bboy Date: 04 Aug 11 - 05:28 AM Instead of saying riding he said ride an and a hooley-ann is a roping term. |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: Genie Date: 04 Aug 11 - 06:23 PM OK, but what are the "coulees" that the horses feed in? |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: Genie Date: 04 Aug 11 - 06:25 PM I guess that term refers to ravines or gulches where the horses feed. |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 05 Aug 11 - 06:37 PM Coulee is generally considered to be a Canadian French term, variously applied to a shallow ravine or small stream, sometimes to a dry streambed. Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Versions have leading old Dan, Ball, Fan, or dam; take your pick. It is wrong to say that one is more correct than another. Montana is a large and varied state, mountains and plains, good grass to semi-desert. See preceeding posts re. hooleyann (hoolian) and hoolihan; usually the first is defined as rope work, the second as throwing a party (after the drive was over, etc.) or a rodeo type of roping, but both appear in versions and it is up to the singer. Most of this has appeared in previous posts. |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: Martha Burns Date: 06 Aug 11 - 03:27 AM Dick, Your dad was a real live cowboy?! Is this true?? |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: GUEST Date: 26 Aug 11 - 12:10 PM It's a loop to rope cattle |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: GUEST,Jim K Date: 10 Oct 11 - 08:36 PM Les B. is right on about the hoolian. I've been raised among cowboys and my brother-in-law is 84 and still cowboys some. He showed me how to throw a hoolian to catch a horse. It is indeed kind of a backward and overhand throw. You do this without swinging the rope. It is a difficult move to make with any accuracy. |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: leeneia Date: 14 Oct 17 - 03:21 PM All is resolved. Open this document: https://www.loc.gov/folklife/LP/CowboySongs_opt.pdf Go to page 3 and read all about it, including what a hoolihan is. |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: GUEST Date: 19 Oct 24 - 04:03 PM Yes, "old dam" is an old mare. |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: GUEST Date: 19 Oct 24 - 04:08 PM Yes, a "hoolian, or hooley-anne is a way of throwing, or tossing a wide lariat, mostly in a corral situation. |
Subject: RE: Old Paint: What's a hoolian? From: The Sandman Date: 20 Oct 24 - 04:14 AM Thankyou I have learned something |
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