Skyball Paint

DESCRIPTION: "Now Skyball Paint was a devil's saint, His eyes was a fiery red. Good men have tried this horse to ride But all of them are dead." The singer can't ride Skyball either. Finally he sells him to "old Sheriff Jim."
AUTHOR: Bob Nolan (source: Sons of the Pioneers recordings), although Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs seems to think it older
EARLIEST DATE: 1935 (Sons of the Pioneers recording)
KEYWORDS: horse cowboy campsong
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 398-399, "Sky Ball Paint" (1 text, 1 tune)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 133, 175, 228, 242-248, 346, 347, 348, 432, 500, "Skyball Paint" (notes, with 2 texts on pp. 246-248; bibliography on pp. 669-670)
Roud #37846
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Zebra Dun" (theme of the un-ridable horse) and references there
File: ACSF228P

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