Wild Buckaroo, The

DESCRIPTION: "I've been ridin' cattle for most of my life, I ain't got no family and I ain't got no wife." The cowboy boasts of his exploits, tells of the places he has worked, describes what he likes, and concludes "I'm a high-loping cowboy and a wild buckaroo."
AUTHOR: Curley Fletcher ?
EARLIEST DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: cowboy bragging work bawdy
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 35, "Cowboy Boasters" (5 texts, 2 tunes; this is the "C" text)
Logsdon-WhorehouseBellsWereRinging 15, pp. 102-107, "Wild Buckaroo" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #10091
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Strawberry Roan" (tune)
NOTES [107 words]: Glenn Ohrlin credits this to Curley Fletcher.
These days this song is probably known best in its parody version, which Ohrlin also credits to Fletcher; in the parody, a succession of increasingly bawdy verses follows the clean ones. - PJS
Logsdon-WhorehouseBellsWereRinging also credits a verion to Fletcher. The interesting question is whether all the songs listed e.g. by the Fifes as "Cowboy Boasters" can be lumped, and if not, how to split them -- the format of this, in two-line independent couplets, makes almost infinite rearrangement possible. It is noteworthy, for instance, how different are Logsdon's clean and dirty versions. - RBW
File: FCS35C

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