“The sun is sinking in the west The cattle go down to the stream The redwing settles in the nest It’s time for a cowboy to dream” – My Rifle, My Pony and Me (Tiomkin/Webster) © Warner Chappell Music, Inc In 1958, when lauded movie director Howard Hawks decided to begin work on his next …
“Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl Nighttime would find me in Rosa’s Cantina Music would play and Feleena would whirl” – El Paso (Marty Robbins) Marty Robbins’ fifth studio album – Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs – was released in September 1959. Although Robbins …
“Till Bill Doolin met Bill Dalton He was workin’ cheap, just buyin’ time And then he laughed and said I’m goin’ And so he left that peaceful life behind” – Doolin-Dalton (Henley, Frey, Browne, Souther) © Red Cloud Music, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. William “Bill” Doolin was born in Johnson County, Arkansas, in 1858. He …
“His eyes are cold and restless And his wounds have almost healed And she’d give half of Texas Just to change the way he feels “’Cause she knows his love’s in Tulsa And she knows he’s gonna go But it ain’t no woman flesh and blood It’s that damned old rodeo” – Rodeo (Larry Bastian) …
“As I was walking one morning for pleasure I spied a cowpuncher riding along His hat was throwed back and his spurs were a-jingling And as he approached he was singing this song “Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies It’s your misfortune and none of my own Whoopie ti yi yo, git along …
“To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip (Big iron on his …
The Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood): “Don Miguel Roho…I want to talk to you! Don Miguel, I hear you’re hiring on men. Well, I just may be available. I gotta tell you before you hire me, I don’t work cheap…!” – A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone was born in Rome on January 3, …
“Last night I came home And I knocked on my door And I called to my love As I oft had before And I knocked and I knocked No answer there came No kisses to greet me No voice called my name” – I Couldn’t Believe It Was True (Eddy Arnold / Wally Fowler) © …
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“It was a time of the preacher When the story began Of the choice of a lady And the love of a man How he loved her so dearly He went out of his mind When she left him for someone That she’d left behind” – Time of the Preacher (Willie Nelson) © Sony/ATV Music …
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“Some trails are happy ones Others are blue It’s the way you ride the trail that counts Here’s a happy one for you” – Happy Trails (Dale Evans) © Sony/ATV Music Roy Rogers was born as Leonard Franklin Slye on November 5, 1911, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The son of Mattie and Andrew “Andy” Slye, “Len” …