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10 Mar 23 - 10:36 AM (#4167249) Subject: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: GUEST The Cowboy's Dream is a song set to the tune of My Bonnie. Carl Samberg was famous for collecting new beginnings of new words of old folk songs from England and Scotland. Ehe first time that a a British song got sent to the USA was a song called O How The Money Rolls In first recored in 1905 by the Hayden Quartet with Henry Burr and Len Spencer. The Cowboy's Dream was first recorded by Texas Slim Clark. In 1929 the best remembered recording is in 1950 by Rex Allen there were other songs to the same tune but they cant be found nowhere cause some were made to kids cub and scouts songs and football chant songs as well, from Joe. |
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10 Mar 23 - 04:13 PM (#4167286) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: GerryM Have you got a link to the lyrics, or to a recording, Guest? Is it anything like The Drover's Dream, https://folkstream.com/032.html ? or, The Shearer's Dream, https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/theshearersdream.html ? |
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10 Mar 23 - 05:23 PM (#4167293) Subject: ADD: The Cowboy's Dream (Eddy Arnold) From: GUEST,R J M Cowboy's Dream Song by Eddy Arnold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnEC5G8H5Jg |
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10 Mar 23 - 06:50 PM (#4167300) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett Very slight corrections: "dogies" rather than "doggies" (long vowel) "... to be marked by the Riders of Judgement" "... road that leads down to perdition" There's a lovely BC re-write for truck loggers: Last night as I lay on the prairie And looking right up at the sky I wondered if ever a logger Would be happy way up there on high. Chorus Roll on, roll on, Roll on, you log haulers, roll on, roll on. Roll on, roll on, Roll on, you log haulers, roll on. (a few more verses) Jon Bartlett |
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12 Mar 23 - 12:22 AM (#4167343) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: Joe Offer For the record, the melody is "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean." Sounds very pretty, when it comes from the lips of Eddy Arnold. |
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14 Mar 23 - 12:15 PM (#4167529) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: Steve Gardham If it uses the melody of 'My Bonnie', as it obviously does, then it can't be any older than the 1880s when the student rewrite of Clifton's 'Send back my Barney' was adapted, the original tune being somewhat different. |
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14 Mar 23 - 03:46 PM (#4167546) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: Lighter See the thread on "The Grand Round-Up." Early mentions just call it a "poem." |
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14 Mar 23 - 04:15 PM (#4167552) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: Steve Gardham Can you post me a link, please, Jon? I can't find it in the search box. |
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15 Mar 23 - 02:08 PM (#4167640) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett I can do better, Steve. Here's the text: BC 07: ROLL ON, YOU LOG HAULERS 1. Last night as I stood at the landing Looking right up at the sky I wondered if ever a logger Would be happy way up there on high. CHORUS ROLL ON, ROLL ON, ROLL ON, YOU LOG HAULERS, ROLL ON, ROLL ON ROLL ON, ROLL ON, ROLL ON, YOU LOG HAULERS, ROLL ON. 2. Will there be any big logs to haul there? Will there be any pine trees to fell? I sometimes think that a logger Would be happier way down in hell. 3. A logger's life is a hard one With danger around all the bends But I imagine one day I will be there For that's where I'll meet all my friends. 4. I expect that I'll hit a tough show there Haulin' logs down slippery hills A-workin' full twenty-four hours To try and catch up with my bills. 5. But one thing, there'll be a big change there, I'll be doin' it just for the thrills I'll be haulin' 'em all for the devil To the deuce with the interior sawmills! - as sung by Jim Kehoe; w., m., John Kehoe. PJT Coll #083 |
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15 Mar 23 - 03:19 PM (#4167641) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: Lighter "The Grand Round-up" : /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=155346&messages=5 |
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15 Mar 23 - 04:22 PM (#4167646) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: Steve Gardham I get a 404 on that one, JonL. I'm presuming all of these songs are influenced by 'My Bonnie'. I'd be interested to know if the 'My Bonnie' tune was earlier than the student parody of 'Barney'. I'd also be interested to know if there was a website that attempted to list all of the well-known, much-used tunes like 'My Bonnie' along with the songs that use them. I could fill a book with 'Derry Downs' |
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15 Mar 23 - 06:44 PM (#4167660) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: Lighter Apologies, Steve: /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=155346&messages=5 |
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21 Mar 23 - 01:47 AM (#4168117) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: leeneia Up above we see The road to that bright happy region Is a dim narrow trail so they say But the brought one that leads to protection [perdition] Is posted and blazed all the way. Me, I bet that "brought one" is supposed to be "bright one" - i.e., bright road. |
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21 Mar 23 - 02:29 AM (#4168118) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: leeneia Oops. I listened to the YouTube. It's not bright, it's broad. The Riders of Judgment may be Writers of Judgment. They put a cowboy's name in the great tally book. |
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24 Mar 23 - 10:38 PM (#4168340) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett My thinking is "riders", Leeneia. They're mounted and they are going to "mark" the cowboys (I presume, re-brand them). My 2c. Jon Bartlett |
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28 Mar 23 - 02:52 PM (#4168750) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: leeneia I've folk-processed the song to suit myself, and I've thrown that verse out entirely. Modern cattlemen don't brand the cattle anymore. It's inhumane and unhealthy, so I find it hard to picture angels or angel-agents doing it. |
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24 Apr 23 - 04:29 PM (#4170737) Subject: RE: Origins: The Cowboy's Dream From: leeneia I just sang my version on the Singaround. Everybody else was singing long, long songs that made mine seem too short, so I wrote a new verse on the spot. Here's verse 4 At night, when it's dark on the prairie, I count every heifer and steer. I sing to the poor little dogies so they know that their cowboy is near. A dogie is an orphaned or neglected calf. The original says "Get your name in the great tally book." That makes me think of the poem about Abou ben Adhem. |