Westward Ho! (Traveling Yodler)

DESCRIPTION: "I love not Colorado Where the faro table grows.... Nor seek I fair Montana.... Sweet poker haunted Kansas.... The Nevada rough has charms enough, Yet its blandishments I fly." "I'll build a cot on a corner lot And get rich as soon as I can."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys)
KEYWORDS: travel home money
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 161-162, "Westward Ho!" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 20, "Westward Ho" (1 text)
ArkansasWoodchopper, pp. 24-25, "Traveling Yodler" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8008
NOTES [56 words]: Arkansas Woodchopper credits this to Nick Manoloff, but it appears to predate Manoloff. Curiously, although the Arkansas Woodchopper included this in his book, it does not appear that he ever recorded it! Nor did anyone else that I can find. I wonder where the Woodchopper found his tune; none of the other versions seem to have one. - RBW
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