Guitar: Zebra Dun

An amusing side of cowboy life is revealed here by the late Cisco Houston, long-time travelling companion of Woody Guthrie. This is a delightful ballad about a practical joke at the expense of a newcomer to the cattle country, but, as the story will reveal, the greenhorn is not to be outsmarted. Folklorists have differed about the origins of this song. John Lomax ascribed it to a Negro camp cook on the Pecos River, but Kenneth S. Goldstein believes it is of white cowboy authorship.

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• Zebra
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• Cisco
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• American
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• Folk
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[thinkingofthesea]

unlike other children of the nineties, i remember hearing this song as a child...not nsync.

[DealyRizazamatizazz]

That was a nice little story, thanks for sharing your talent.