First posted, Jan, 2006 Last update, Aug 25, 2010 |
Play song 3:53 Great American Cowboy By Jack Hannah, sung by The Sons of the San Joaquin Album: From Whence Came the Cowboy Artist biography
"Pulling calfs" refers to birthing calfs in a snow storm, sometimes the cowboys need to physically pull a calf out of its mother Woolies = a kind of chaps made of angora goat skin with the wool still on the outside. Worn by only a few cowboys in the wintertime Dogie = a young calf Chinch is the strap that goes around the horse's belly to hold the saddle in place. Chopping ice, this is neccessary to free up water for the cattle, who could not get to water under the ice. Stetson is a brand of hat famous for western styles "Daddy of 'em all" is slang for a rodeo Wild galoot refers to a bucking bronco "Rolling his own". Depending on your interpretation of the song, this could refer to how the bronco rider must rock forward and back to keep in time with the bronc to stay on its back for 8 seconds to qualify for the prize, or could refer to rolling his own cigarette
Well, he's up at the crack of dawn, puttin' thoes big boots on Pullin' thoes calves in the snow has left him tired There's tension in the air as he thinks of th ecritters ou there The grazin' gone, the winter has hit 'em hard!
Cowboy, great American Cowboy -
Well, he's up at the crack of dawn, puttin' thoes woolies on
Cowboy, great American Cowboy -
Well, he's up at the crack of dawn, cinchin' that saddle on...
Cowboy, great American Cowboy -
Well, he's up at the crack of dawn, puttin' that bacon on...
Cowboy, great American Cowboy -
Well he's up at the crack of dawn puttin' that Stetson on...
Cowboy, great American Cowboy -
With a hos and a rope and a gun, he tamed the West!
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