Bunkhouse Orchestra

DESCRIPTION: How the cowboys have a dance: "It' the best grand high that there is within the law When seven jolly punchers tackle 'Turkey in the Straw.'" The dance lets the cowboys forget their troubles, their aches, and the women they pretend not to miss
AUTHOR: Words: Charles Badger Clark (1883-1957)
EARLIEST DATE: 1920
KEYWORDS: dancing cowboy party
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 103, "Bunkhouse Orchestra" (1 text, 1 tune)
Saffel-CowboyPoetry, pp. 163-164, "The Bunk-House Ochestra" (1 text)
Roud #11093
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Turkey in the Straw" (tune & meter) and references there
NOTES [21 words]: For a brief biography of author Charles Badger Clark, see the notes to "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (A Border Affair)." - RBW
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File: FCW103

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