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With my hand on the horn and my seat in the sky. I’ll quit herding cows in the sweet by-and-by. "Old Chisholm Trail" is an American folk song from the 19th century. This page has lyrics, video, audio, and song history.
"The Old Chisholm Trail" (Roud 3438) is a cowboy song first published in 1910 by John Lomax in his book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. [1] The song dates back to the 1870s, when it was among the most popular songs sung by cowboys during that era.
The Road Not Taken. By Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood. And looked down one as far as I could. To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,
May 24, 2012 · Poetry about the American West is too often maudlin, overly cute, too willing to sacrifice truth to myth. George Rhoades, in Along the Chisholm Trial and Other Poems, dodges all that, using tight rhymes like good barbed wire to capture the real cowboys who pushed the cattle north and gave birth to the Cowboy Code.
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Nov 24, 2018 · Fiction and hearsay have forever altered public perceptions of the cowboy, the West and the cattle trails. Over the last 20 years or so attention has again shifted to the Chisholm Trail, a route that purportedly originated somewhere in Texas and ran north to central Kansas.
Apr 25, 2017 · The lyrics date to the 1870s, and the tune to the 1600s. Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Randy Travis, and Michael Martin Murphey have all lent their vocal stylings to the tune. By far the most popular song chronicling the trail drives, the Chisholm Trail moniker for all trails stuck.
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The Chisholm Trail was not the longest cattle trail but probably became the most famous because of the song “The Old Chisholm Trail”: ”Come along boys and listen to my tale, I'll tell you of my troubles on the old Chisholm Trail. Come a ti yi yippee, come a ti, yi, yea."
