Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 23 Apr 03 - 05:00 PM

Summary of threads on "Old Dolores (The Town of Old Dolores)"
Original by James Grafton Rogers, as published by him, with additional verse by George Fraser- 13471 (this thread, 14 Mar 03).
Rogers, with Katie Lee additions- 13471 (this thread, 07 Jan 02).
Chords 12 Mar 02. Also thread 51310.
Utah Phillips version, thread 13283, 25 Aug 99. Changes. Mention of Harry Tufts version on Folk-Legacy, thread 13283, 26 Aug 99.
DT, song ID 8583. Rewritten version by either utah Phillips or Harry Tuft (not clear) July 01.

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: Lane
Date: 23 Apr 03 - 09:17 PM

I heard it years ago, Sons of the Pioneers, maybe??? And I"ve been looking for it ever since... "On the Trail to San Antone"... I think that's the title anyway.... "I'll hop up on my pony and I'll ride away, on the trail to San Antone.... "...

Can anyone help me find the chords?????

Lane

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 23 Apr 03 - 10:27 PM

I believe the song is from the movie, Gene Autry, 1947, Trail to San Antone. Maybe someone has the old Gene Autry songbook and can locate it. Not in Cowpie and looks like the Record Lady is gone.

Lots of covers, but can't find any lyrics or chords.

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: Lane
Date: 25 Apr 03 - 12:27 AM

Yes, I think that's the one... I've searched Cowpie and other sources with no luck.... maybe someone has an MP3 or? Would like to get chords, I think I remember the lyrics...

Subject: Lyr Add: DOUBLE-BREASTED MANSION (J G Rogers)
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 18 May 03 - 04:45 PM

Lyr. Add: DOUBLE-BREASTED MANSION
(James Grafton Rogers)

Key C
How well I remember, not many years ago,
The drummers used to hang around my store.
They would drink up all my whiskey
and they'd smoke up my cigars.
And my servant girls they'd "mash"
behind the door.
But now the times have changed
and I am growing poor,
Of the free lunch I can always
eat my share.
And I think about the Sweitzer cheese
and I always used to eat
In my double-breasted mansion on the square.

Chorus:
Oh! her roof was copper-bottomed
and her chimneys solid gold,
And an elevator placed on every stair,
But I lost a lot at Keno
and I'll never more behold
My double-breasted mansion on the square.

Forty million head of cattle
used to roam around our farm,
And each hog he had a splendid feather bed,
We had male and female roosters,
and they liked their whiskey warm,
They were of Shanghai, Cochin China breed.
Our corn fields yielded butter
and the orchards yielded lard,
We used to sow and reap the mellow pear,
But I lost a lot at Keno
and I'll never more behold
That double-breasted mansion on the square.

E-8. James Grafton Rogers, 1973, "A Golden Treasury," p. 31, published by the prestigious University Club of Denver, Rogers' home in later years. The song is typical of the tales told at the bar in western towns by failed western tycoons (and bums) trying to cadge drinks.
Rogers wrote "Old Dolores" (this thread) and many other poems collected later in "A Golden Treasury." He sang most of them, but seldom indicated more than the key. I once heard that he sang this one to a tune modified from "Little Joe The Wrangler."

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: Gene
Date: 18 May 03 - 11:54 PM

belive I have that by Roy Rogers...will look tomorrow...

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 19 May 03 - 12:57 PM

Gene, please do. I would like to know what tune he used.

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: Gene
Date: 19 May 03 - 06:39 PM

rather than IMBED lyrics in this rambling thread, I
posted to a new [LYR ADD:] thread-

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=59839&messages=1

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: Ron Davies
Date: 18 May 09 - 09:06 PM

These 1938 (and 1986?) re-issues of the Favorite Cowboy Songs book--do they have only the songs from the original 1910 Alan Lomax book, or are there more modern ones added? I have a friend who's looking for a book of cowboy songs with none later than, say, 1920. (Nothing from the radio era or after--no, not even Ragtime Cowboy Joe.)   She's pertikler.

She thought the book she was really looking for was called Cowboy Songs and Frontier Songs, but it seems evident to me that the book she wants is the subject of this thread--as long as there are no new songs added in the new additions. She did say that it came out in 1910, assembled by Alan Lomax.

If the 1938 and 1986 versions are just reprints--no additions--where can she get a copy of this book?   Any ideas?

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: Mark Ross
Date: 18 May 09 - 11:03 PM

Here's the ABEbooks web page

It was Alans' father John who did the 1st edition.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 May 09 - 11:54 PM

Additions were made to several editions.
The original 1910 edition by John A. Lomax was reprinted in 1911 and 1915; Abebooks lists three at $104-225, the latter for a first in good condition.
Title: "Cowboy Songs."

Additions were made to a new edition, 1916-1919.I have a 1925 reprint which was reasonable in price.
A thread here at Mudcat discusses the additions and their dates of inclusion; it is much cheaper to buy one of these and use the Mudcat information to isolate those added after 1910.

The 1938 edition was a major revision, many additions; it was reprinted through 1966 (or later?). The title page became "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads; Revised and Enlarged," but the cover title remained "Cowboy Songs." Alan Lomax was added as co-author.

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: kendall
Date: 19 May 09 - 06:54 AM

Home on the range... I don't know if this verse was original or not but I always liked it:

The red man was pressed from this part of the west,
It aint likely he'll ever return
To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever their flickering camp fires burn.

Any one who wants Slim Clark recordings can contact his widow. Details on request.

Subject: RE: Favourite Cowboy Songs-Second Edition
From: olddude
Date: 19 May 09 - 07:06 AM

Art Thieme wrote a song called "Rock River Valley" that has become one of my all time favourite cowboy songs also