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beamjockey) wrote2016-02-25 01:10 pm
beamjockey) wrote2016-02-25 01:10 pm
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The Very Best Fake Cowboy Song
What's the best fake cowboy song? "Jingle Jangle Jingle?" "Don't Fence Me In?" "Wah-Hoo?" Some other song?
"Jingle Jangle Jingle," also known as "I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle," Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loesser, 1942.
Lyrics.
"Don't Fence Me In," by Cole Porter and Robert Fletcher, 1934. Lyrics.
(Bonus: Trigger kisses Roy Rogers.)
"Wah-Hoo," by Cliff Friend, 1936. Lyrics.
Until recently I didn't care for the highly-earwormy "Wah-Hoo," but then I discovered the Hoosier Hotshots' cover of the song, and it's growing on me.
"Jingle Jangle Jingle," also known as "I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle," Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loesser, 1942.
Lyrics.
"Don't Fence Me In," by Cole Porter and Robert Fletcher, 1934. Lyrics.
(Bonus: Trigger kisses Roy Rogers.)
"Wah-Hoo," by Cliff Friend, 1936. Lyrics.
Until recently I didn't care for the highly-earwormy "Wah-Hoo," but then I discovered the Hoosier Hotshots' cover of the song, and it's growing on me.
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Makes no sense whatever but it's haunting.
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And it is arguably fake (Bob Nolan wrote it in 1936; he had been an itinerant laborer, but may not have worked as a cowboy per se; mostly he was a showbiz guy).
But now that you have mentioned it, "Cool Water" seems to inhabit a different universe than all the jolly, range-ridin' cowpokes in the other songs. It's a place where desperate men and desperate mules are struggling for survival, fighting temptation, praying for help, and taking hope from wistful visions (or are they hallucinations?) of a Big Green Tree somewhere.
Its language is over-the-top by the standards of our generation (which is perhaps why it is nearly always sung ironically, these days) but yeah, it's haunting.